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...Samneua. The French abandoned Samneua and its air strip as "indefensible," and the garrison fled south across uncharted mountains, carrying their wounded on their backs and harried all the way by the Viet Minh. Supplied by air with food and water, and with Benzedrine to keep them from falling asleep and being ambushed, the French reached Xiengkhouang (pronounced sing kwong), a market town in north Laos. But the Communists, with an estimated force of 40,000 men, kept pressing forward, with long lines of Russian-made Molotov trucks following up with supplies. Xiengkhouang's 1,500 civilians were ordered...
...people of Chief Luka of Lari had banded together in an African Home Guard to keep out the Mau Mau. They were asleep in their huts as the silent Mau Mau warriors moved in for the kill. The first wave of attackers barred each hut door, the next, carrying torches, set fire to the grass roofs. Then, as the terrified villagers came stumbling out of the blaze, the executioners went to work with long sharp knives...
...parent feels guilty and wants to restrain himself." Cataplexy, says Dr. Levin, is a symptom of narcolepsy (involuntary sleep). Cataplexy may occur when a man has an aggressive impulse which, because of guilt, he tries (or feels he should try) to suppress. Or he may actually fall asleep. Dr. Levin cites the example of the soldier who almost falls asleep when under enemy fire for the first time-"a moment when one would expect him to break all records for alertness...
...recordings of both pictures and sound "will obsolete the use of film . . . and reduce overall costs." ¶In the home, closed-circuit TV will make "the television receiver truly the control center . . . The snap of a switch will turn the receiver from the broadcast program to view the children asleep in the nursery or at play in the yard, or the cooking on the kitchen range. The housewife will not only hear but see the caller at the door before she opens...
...hemorrhage, as is usual in such cases, came without warning. It could not have mattered whether Stalin was in earnest conference, or playing cards, or asleep. An artery in his brain, no longer able to withstand the pounding of the blood coursing through it under excessive pressure, blew out like a worn bicycle tire. Blood flowed into the brain cells of the surrounding grey matter, clogged them and made them useless. Then the blood began to clot...