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Surgeons made an incision in Powell's abdomen, brought out part of the colon, and cut it halfway through. "From then on," said Powell, "fecal matter went no farther than this opening in my abdomen, and emptied into a pouch attached around my middle...
...Congress. Says Freeman himself: "I admire two-fisted people. Pussyfooting around doesn't appeal to me." Though he is a city boy, Freeman sometimes seems a bit homespun by New Frontier standards. His speech is sprinkled with harmless little bromides such as "You can't get halfway up a hill-you got to go all the way." His favorite movie fare is gunsmoky westerns...
...functional parish" uniting city groups sharing common interests. Father Jones's own congregation is one such-composed of murderers, rapists, drug addicts, forgers, burglars and larcenists. His parish is St. Leonard's House on Chicago's West Side, one of the nation's few "halfway homes" for ex-cons...
...rank demanded a high dwelling place, they created a chain of mountains. On the most sacred eastern end of the island, the gods erected the highest of Bali's mountains, the 10,308-foot volcano of Gunung Agung, regarded by the Balinese as "The Navel of the World." Halfway up the slope of Agung, the pious Balinese built the huge mother temple of Besakih, and every hundred years they have held a solemn rite there to rid the island of ghosts. Last week, in the midst of the once-a-century festival, Agung erupted with catastrophic fury...
...mile. I was skeptical about my ability to run that in 62 sec., because I am so used to running a mile pace, which calls for about a 58-sec. first quarter." His time for the quarter: 1 min. 1.5 sec., just .5 sec. ahead of plan. At the halfway mark, his last challenger, Canada's Bruce Kidd, fell 15 yds. behind. All by himself, Beatty continued on-pat, pat, pat, his feet making almost no sound on the board track, his elbows wide, wrists dangling loosely, body starchly erect...