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White Death. Sleep leaned on his eyelids, pressed down on his brain like a weight. Flying southeastward over the Canadian Rockies, he fell asleep. When he awoke an hour and 40 minutes later, he was flying almost due north. All around him, white-fanged peaks glinted in the moonlight. "I looked up and I was headed for a huge cloud. No, I thought, that's not a cloud." It was the top of Mount Logan, 19,850 feet high. "I just pulled back on the wheel and spiraled right up ... before I straightened out for home...
...Chance of a Lifetime." It was not with a bang, but with a wheedle, that Britain's Prime Minister asked his nation to face her crisis. In a high, flat, singsong voice, he recited cliche after cliche. Now & then he wrung his hands gently. Some M.P.s fell asleep, others drifted out of the Chamber (making polite bows to the Speaker) for a chat or cigaret...
...went home and lay down on his bed. He ate his meager supper silently, then went back upstairs. In the darkness of that night, when the others in the house were fast asleep, Erich climbed the ladder to the attic. In the silence and alone, he hanged himself...
Hotbed. In Philadelphia, firemen burst into a hotel room to rip a blazing mattress from under sound-asleep William O'Toole, 45 minutes later found the mattress ablaze again, Guest O'Toole again blissfully sleeping...
...years after World War I, Denver dreamed more of the past than of the future. So did Mayor Ben Stapleton (TIME, March 10). Old Ben was one of the most powerful city bosses in the U.S., but he devoted himself mainly to falling asleep at banquets and opposing change. But when Denver woke to the alarm-clock jangle of World War II, and began to grow and get new industry, its 77-year-old boss suddenly seemed as outmoded as a wooden sidewalk...