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...reputation for indifference to the poor, Castle walked the streets, inviting everyone he met to come to services, and rented storefronts where he gave daily religious services. To attract children into a new Young People's Fellowship group, he played basketball on city playgrounds with neighborhood boys, skipped rope with schoolgirls. Attendance at the three Sunday services he conducts now is seldom less than 400. The number of children enrolled in the church school has risen from 20 to 200-kids who in their scrubbed smiles and neat clothes would not have to shrink from comparison with...
...distance for the 220-yard freestyle has been changed to 200 yards, while the 440-yard freestyle has been lengthened to 500 yards. Both of these events will now finish at the end of the pool rather than at a rope line as previously...
...learned better. Hoofs pounding, the old bull charged wildly into the arena, spun dizzily to his left, then suddenly reversed himself and spun to his right-and Cowboy Reynolds hit the dirt with a thump. "I looked up," recalls Reynolds, "and one of the clowns was snapping a lead rope on him. Another clown got on his back, and they led him out of the arena. It was downright degrading. But it was sort of comical...
Hull at first coldly visualized Eichmann "with a rope around his neck," and although now "God has given me a slight feeling of compassion," the preacher still feels that Eichmann had a fair trial and ought to hang for his crimes. "I'm not interested in his body," he says. "But I am interested in his soul. He should be given a chance to save it. As Christians, we are obliged to offer him that much...
...long, stringy hair he wears either a floppy jungle cap or a pith helmet covered with netting into which he thrusts camouflage appropriate to the terrain through which he is moving. His full field pack contains only a waterproof nylon sheet, a mosquito net, a hammock and some rope...