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Square, a Wall Street favorite, was blunt. Said he: "They signed the bill in the early hours of the morning, and they were probably asleep. This is really going to hurt a lot of people...
...year-old girl named Waffa was asleep when her home fell on top of her. She is asleep now too. Her head is shaved where they operated. Her left ear is blackened, her left eye swollen red. Below it, her cheek is sheathed in a purple-gray plaster. Her brain is damaged. She will be partly paralyzed for life. Beside her bed sits her older sister, who cannot bear to look. She stares instead at the open window...
What bravado! Revolutions often start in quiet corners. But few try to rouse the masses when most of them are asleep. ABC and NBC did just that last week, however, in the first phase of the biggest growth of network TV news since the mid-1960s, when evening broadcasts grew from 15 minutes to a half-hour. ABC and NBC launched programs to serve news junkies as late as 3 a.m. and as early as 6 a.m. CBS will counter in October with news programs stretching from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m., thereby keeping the network...
...speech than was expected. The four other candidates who spoke-Senators Hart, John Glenn of Ohio, Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Alan Cranston of California-turned in respectable performances but failed to fire up the crowd. Glenn looked on the bright side: "I didn't see anyone asleep." The fifth hopeful, former Governor Reubin Askew of Florida, chose not to make an address, pursuing instead the sort of quiet, behind-the-scenes strategy that helped win Jimmy Carter the nomination...
...what British Defense Minister John Nott described as a "brilliant surprise attack," Royal Marine commandos and paratroopers overran Argentine positions just before daybreak, coming to within five miles of Port Stanley. Many of the young Argentine defenders were asleep in their foxholes as the British struck. The first things they saw, said Nott, "were the blackened faces of the British troops in the trenches with them...