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Cupped Chin. The next blow fell at the home of a near neighbor of the Prime Minister-India's Solicitor General Hem Nath Sanyal. Late one night four men broke into Sanyal's bungalow and choked him to death with a dhoti, or loincloth. Since Sanyal had been pressing corruption charges against several ministers of Orissa state, members of Parliament cried that his murder must be connected with the investigation-though Delhi's police insisted it was only a robbery attempt...
...sports a 50-in. bust-bigger than Jayne Mansfield's and, strange to say, almost as voluptuously formed. What's more, even though he plays a country boy, Gordon's nails are exquisitely manicured, his teeth are expensively capped, and his wardrobe apparently includes a loincloth by Balenciaga. But he's tougher than he looks. In one scene he puts his fist through a paving stone (well, anyway, it looks like a paving stone) almost a foot thick. In another, he connects with an uppercut and rockets his opponent 30 ft. into...
When Grindle, who claims to have "willed" all spermatozoa away, suspects his student is pregnant, he ships her off to Tibet. There she encounters a holy man "wearing a simple loincloth" and some unholy tourists. A number of American tourists were following him along, taking pictures of him, offering him money and bits of bread. He seemed quite unaware of their presence, however ... When a cute little girl of six was sent up to him by one of the mothers to get his autograph, he appeared not even to see her. This caused a certain amount of bitter feeling...
...reducing course. He weighs in at 303 lbs., and his stomach is roughly the size and shape of a medicine ball. Yet Koki Naya, known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), makes upward of $50,000 a year for practicing his specialty, and when he appears, clad in a loincloth, his long hair bundled in a topknot, he sends shivers of delight through the bobby-sox set. At 22, Taiho is the youngest grand champion in the history of sumo wrestling, one of the world's oldest sports...
...mature woman, lying down, squatting asleep with a child on her lap and seated on a leopard throne. Some of the figurines have grotesquely exaggerated pendulous breasts and normally proportioned thighs and buttocks; others reverse the goddess' topography. Sometimes she is naked; at other times she wears a loincloth or even a white painted robe. Says one top authority on the Neolithic period: "From now on the Hacilar figures should appear in the first chapter of any history of world...