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...ludicrous aristocracy and built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...
Complained Weeks: "I have not heard from an automobile salesman for at least four years." All over the U.S., businessmen would agree with the Secretary that the great American salesman, if not dead, is fast asleep...
...University of Virginia's School of Medicine charted the physician's responsibility in the prevention of accidents. It begins, they said, with the detection of disorders of the nervous system which may predispose a patient to highway accidents. Chief among these: an uncontrollable tendency to fall asleep (narcolepsy), both petit-mal and grand-mal epilepsy, brain hemorrhages, mental deficiencies and illnesses, Parkinsonism, the aftereffects of lobotomy, and paralysis of nerve centers which govern muscles...
...guards passed out; the captain and the other guard went on drinking. Athanassios refilled their glasses, this time adding a dash of morphine. Within five minutes both were asleep. Athanassios lit two lanterns as a signal. Ashore, his waiting brother Christakis hastily stripped off his clothes, dodged into a doorway to avoid two approaching soldiers, then darted naked across 50 ft. of waterfront road to dive into the icy harbor. Soon afterward, Athanassios hauled him aboard the Dynamo. With engine snorting, running lights burning bright and passengers sweetly sleeping, the two brothers then set out for Greece...
...last week. Yonosuke fell asleep and dreamed of his daughter. "I saw her," he said, "not clearly, but as through a haze. She held out her arms and said, 'Daddy, daddy, my hands are all black.' " Back at his digging next day, Yonosuke noticed for the first time a thick slime of coal-black clay oozing out of the debris. He dug in the slime until a side of the trench fell in. There, embalmed in the clay which had blacked their hands and faces, lay the bodies of his wife and his daughter. "Some villagers rushed...