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...black presidential limousine, reached him again at a phone in the Capitol Rotunda. During Reagan's Inaugural speech, Carter briefly closed his red-rimmed eyes, a moment caught by television cameras. He had been praying for the hostages, he later told aides, who had wondered if he had fallen asleep...
...light comes on, and Hartman goes on the air. "Good morning," he says, "I'm David Hartman with Joan Lunden. It's Tuesday, the 18th of November." After a few more introductory words, Bell takes over and tells viewers what happened in the world while they were asleep. At 7:13 Hartman comes back to moderate a sharp debate on school busing between Senators Lowell Weicker and Jesse Helms, the pro and the con. Ten minutes later the show breaks, and some 200 stations give five minutes of local news and weather...
...fall, as Reagan's running mate, he conducted a campaign that was the very model of self-effacement. He said so little of national interest that a reporter for the Los Angeles Times once phoned his editors to discuss a Bush story, was put on hold and fell asleep; when the reporter woke up six hours later, he found he was still on hold...
...Harvard, on the other hand, is primed for an upset. After hearing that Yale was losing to Cornell, the Crimson fell asleep against William and Mary, barely holding on for a 24-13 victory. The gridders knew then that all they would have to do is defeat Penn and Yale the next week, and a share of the Ivy crown would be theirs. The tendency to think a week ahead and ignore the matter at hand is overwhelming. And perhaps fatal...
...morning on a warm Saturday. New York City is asleep. But the crenellated red brick armory of the 101st Cavalry Squadron on Staten Island is busy. Hundreds of men in Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts...