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Photograph taken at a horse race.

Photographer says, 'Self mutilation and torture provides purification for this Hindu religious sect. Three months of solitude and prayer are culminated in this day of skewers and hooks through tongues and body flesh. No kidding--no blood!!!'

Defiant even in defeat is the lone survivor of a terrorist band of four who skyjacked a Lufthansa jet in Majorca and took it on an odyssey of fear that ended 110 hours later in Mogadishu, Somalia. There, in a daring middle-of-the-night raid, West…

Huey Hamilton lives as a hermit in rural Iowa out of touch with society.

The only resident of a small island off Massachuts, he has been isolated for over thirty years.

A river rat along the Ohio River in Kentucky, 58-year-old Hardy Whitworth, has been living in his present lifestyle for the past 38 years. One of the many quirks about his personality is his love for dolls. They are his only companions. Twenty…

For lying about the agency's covert operations in Chile, former CIA director, Richard M. Helms was fined $2,000 and given a suspended two-year prison term. Unrepentant, and with his substantial government pension intact, Helms declared, 'I don't feel…

Retarded and handicapped youngsters learned about Mount Rainier first-hand. And so did the adults who acted as guides on the trip. One young man found a secure spot inside a hollow stone. Others discovered wild flowers. And there was time for…

Alex Haley's search for his roots has taken him halfway around the world and made him an internationally acclaimed author. In Henning he was the hometown boy who made good, besieged with autograph seekers for the book that made him.

Two Italian friends having their hair done in the beauty parlor of an Italian old folks home.