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...ordinary plane among the ordinary passengers, dutifully listening to the stewardess telling him to fasten his seat belt and saying something about the "no smoking sign." So our man relaxed with the others, some of whom would owe their lives to him. Perhaps he started to read, or to doze, or to regret some harsh remark made in the office that morning. Then suddenly he knew that the trip would not be ordinary. Like every other person on that flight, he was desperate to live, which makes his final act so stunning...
...listen to music and begin to doze while you try to study. You give up and head to bed early, as you will every day for the rest of the week. You will eat, sleep, and--most of all--row. For an entire week, crew will be foremost in your mind. You will be hungrier, sorer, and sleepier, than you've ever been before, but when it's over each day you pat your tight stomach with pride before you fall asleep in the warmth and luxurious softness of your...
...lone figure, hands buried in his pockets, fumbles around the bend in Mass. Ave. near Dudley House. Hunched and weaving, he eyes the line of about a half dozen cabs that doze up ahead. Arthur watches the man as he nears the first cab, hesitates for a moment, then staggers...
Perhaps Eisenhower's greatest asset was his credibility with the American people. If they wished to doze off through the '50s, they counted on Ike to wake them when anything important came up. Reagan, for all of his crinkling swell-guy charm, says things that tend to keep people sitting bolt upright, with sweat on their palms...
After visiting relatives down South, Lula Fields, 43, was driving home to Michigan with her husband when she appeared to doze off near Jackson, Tenn. He stopped their car to rouse her, but failed: she had died, soundlessly, of a heat stroke caused by the 100° F weather. In Atlanta, Willie Jones, 52, was discovered prostrate on the floor of his hot, airless apartment; half an hour after doctors packed him in ice, he was still unconscious, with an almost unheard-of body temperature of 116°. In Webster Groves, Mo., Jeneva Goins found her sister Maggie Turner...