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Prodigious Detour. Koestler dwells lovingly on some of the more incongruous (to Westerners) aspects of Yoga, including the "painful [Hindu] obsession with the bowel functions, which permeates religious observances and social custom." Like many a Westerner before him, he was impressed with such yogi feats as reversing peristalsis to take in fluids through the anus and urethra, but was depressed by the far-out theories that went with them-such as that the sperm (bindu) is stored in the head and should be prevented from leaving the body at all costs. The result, says Koestler, is that a large number...
...side of the artery, insert a special instrument, ream out the fatty debris and close the incision with a couple of stitches; 3) slit the artery lengthwise along the blocked stretch and put a long oval plastic patch in the wall to increase its diameter; 4) make an artificial detour for the blood by splicing a length of plastic tube into the artery, above and below the blocked section...
Parade Rest. In Toledo, while leading the city's Public Employees Week parade. Patrolman George Zientara took the whole procession on a one-block detour, later explained: "I have an uncle who lives on Giant Street, and he's never seen all the municipal equipment together...
...spry, bright-eyed man of 75, whose working companion these days is a sweet-faced alley cat with a raucous meow, De Creeft took one sensational detour while still in Paris. It happened one day when "I was sick in the bed." The great flamenco dancer Escudero suddenly burst in and demanded that he make something for a party that would take place that night. De Creeft gazed up at the cold stovepipes that crossed his studio ceiling and, though still muy mal, put together his famous Picador. Almost overnight he was hailed as the founder of a new school...
...same next day at Mar del Plata (a detour carefully arranged to get Ike out of tense Buenos Aires into a more easily policed area). Along the seven-mile route from the airport into the resort town, nearly a million cheering, suntanned vacationers, many wearing bathing suits, made a happy uproar and brought a mile-wide grin to Ike's face...