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...Indians-crowded into the bright, flag-draped town square of Rupert (pop. 4,000). Under trees and ten-gallon hats, they watched a parade, listened to political speeches and waited for the winning names to be drawn. Tired of waiting and hoping, lean young (30) Leslie Clair Powers fell asleep on the grass. Next thing he knew, his wife Elizabeth was shaking him awake in wild excitement: the loudspeaker had blared his name...
Neurosurgeon Jefferson disposed of some medical fallacies, e.g., falling asleep has nothing to do with changes in synapses*- in the nervous system, or a shortage of blood in the brain, or accumulation of lactic acid. Neither is there, as some used to think, a sleep center in the brain...
...spiel, this time "articulating very, very slowly as though I were talking to an idiot child." But Brooks only sighed wearily and said: "It's no good, old boy. I can't understand a word." By the Numbers. Brooks "explained some weeks later . . . that he had been asleep when I rang up and thought I was [someone named] Reggie!" He also tried to atone by teaching Agent Coward a new code consisting "entirely of numbers" and of such awful complexity that "if ever I had been captured by the Gestapo they would certainly have had a tough time...
...French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs-Elysées to a gym where, in identical blue gym suits, they work out for at least an hour. After the workout he returns to his office, works until he falls asleep, and is awakened by a night editor, who sends him home...
...adoring, child-like wife of a rising lawyer in present-day London, the doting mother of an infant son and a happy patient who has just been told that the worst is over in her seven-month siege of TB. Pleasantly contemplating a happy future, she falls asleep on a Victorian chaise longue, a cherished trophy from an antique-buying safari. She wakes up neither in her drawing room nor in her century nor in her own body...