Word: asleep
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Next to the shells, the Marines' biggest complaint is the company they must keep in their bunkers: rats, mosquitoes and flies. "The rats jump right on top of you when you are asleep," says Pfc. Robert Smith, 19. One particularly large rat is named Rockefeller, "because he always gets the best of everything." The standard tour of duty in one of the DMZ camps is 30 days, a brevity that helps make possible the grim humor with which the Marines accept their defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which...
Last month Orton made a five-day trip to Leicester to see his father, a gardener. Unlike the old days, he left his friend behind. When he returned to London, Halliwell was waiting. According to the coroner's jury report, Halliwell waited until Orton was asleep, then clubbed him on the head at least nine times with a hammer. After that, Halliwell swallowed "an enormous overdose" of barbiturates and curled up nude close to his lost friend's body. It was, ruled the jury, a "deliberate form of frenzy." So, in a way, was Orton's funeral...
...ignorant-"he never knew what he couldn't do." Kaiser put it another way: "If I don't dream I'll make it, I won't even get close." Whatever the reason for his success, Henry Kaiser, who died last week at 85 while asleep at his home in Hawaii, put together a remarkable complex of companies that turn out 300 kinds of products in 180 plants in 41 countries and have assets of nearly $3 billion...
Back at the ranch, the President registered a complaint about his grandson. Often, while driving around, he radioed the guest house where Luci and Son-in-Law Pat were tending the baby. When Lyn was awake, Johnson would drop by for a visit-but usually the baby was asleep. Grumbled the President: "I can't remember Luci and Lynda sleeping that much...
...Asleep for three centuries, the Arabs awoke from isolation when Napoleon took Egypt in 1798. At first they were fascinated by Western ideas, from mixed bathing to parliamentary democracy. Western imperialism, symbolized by the Suez Canal, changed the fascination to hostility. Britain "temporarily" occupied Egypt in 1882-and stayed 75 years. By 1914, Britain, France, Italy and Spain owned all of North Africa, manipulating puppet princes, exempting themselves from local law and suffocating local initiative. European goods carried little or no duty; native industries were taxed to death. Britain long held spending for Egyptian education to 1% of the budget...