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...armed and edgy Red Chinese soldiers down the Natu La pass in the Himalayas. He hounded the home office for an assignment in Viet Nam and spent nearly a year there. A different kind of combat duty awaited him back in the U.S. He was punched in the stomach by one of Mayor Daley's security guards on the floor of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
...Huskies came out strong as the second stanza opened, and promptly evened the contest at three. Larry Parks narrowed the gap to 3-2 after only 48 seconds, and McDougall echoed Cowie's superb individual effort with a goal he slid into the net while flat on his stomach...
President Carter now has the body and face of a far younger man. His running has boiled off even the traces of fat, made his stomach almost concave. His muscles and bones have adjusted to the new physical challenge. The corners show. His face seems square from his jaw to his haircut, which has exposed his ears more and flattened the top. More angles. The stringiness so apparent when he first began jogging has disappeared. He is coiled physical vitality behind the desk in the Oval Office or sitting in an overstuffed chair in the family quarters...
Rodriguez had trained for weeks, carefully strengthening his stomach muscles with daily sit-ups and pushups. Good thing, since he subsisted on pizza, tacos, hot dogs and vanilla milkshakes that were donated by well-wishers. Except for a five-minute break every hour, Rodriguez rode the whirlwind, passing the time by reading newspapers and catching naps. After 173 hours and 3,958 laps, he had set another record. Why does he do it? Said he: "It's like climbing mountains -because they are there. The first 15 hours are the toughest. After that, time and space come together...
During the center's open house, Harry Hollis, 64, a retired carpenter, chatted at the punch bowl with Jim Miller, 48. Hollis, the day before, had held in his hands a strip of eleven color photographs taken of the inside of his stomach. Miller had recently spent a day patched to a portable EKG machine. Doc Rose's calendar showed an appendectomy first thing in the morning. It no longer seemed to matter how long it had been since his last haircut...