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...that night to discuss the petition--which already bore 14 signatures--and they told him they would meet him the following morning at 10 a.m. "Next morning, I called them again," Long explained, "and a roommate said they were not there. I called later and he said they were asleep. It seemed to me they simply did not want to see me." Long added that a friend later informed him that these two students had been contacted between 10 p.m. Wednesday night and 10 a.m. Thursday morning by a Vietnamese official...
...present a normal facade to friends felt increasingly isolated. Two of the Cliffies interviewed said they dated a lot. One said, "I went out so much that other girls were jealous of me. But they didn't know how lonely I was. Once I thought of myself lying asleep and I laughed. I thought, 'Poor girl, nobody cares about you and you're not even awake enough to care about yourself...
...years just aren't there. Burton looks the same as he did at the beginning of the movie. You just have to assume that somewhere along the line he asked Mephistopheles to keep him young-looking, because unless I was asleep at the time, there is nothing to explain this...
...same, the failure to extricate Pueblo is riddled with ironies and grievous shortcomings. For so risky an action as a strafing run on North Korean vessels, the President's approval would have been needed. But Johnson was asleep, unaware of the situation until his advisers finally tipped him off a full 2 hrs. and 15 min. after Pueblo had been boarded. Even if the chain of communication had been less sluggish and reached Johnson in time for him to approve an air strike, his O.K. would have meant nothing. The world's foremost airpower did not have...
...duty at the trial of an accused rapist, but during the lunch break he was seen talking to the defendant. At lunch, it turned out, he had had at least two martinis and, when the trial resumed, as is the martini drinker's wont, he fell asleep...