Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's heaviest burden of responsibilities, Lyndon Baines Johnson, needs no drowsy syrups to help him get to sleep-and he often gets only five hours a night. Adman David Ogilvy takes a nightly dose of "a little yellow sleeping pill" which, his doctor assures him, is not habit-forming, and he falls asleep easily on his right side. Actress Julie Harris finds that a long run in an exacting role makes it progressively harder to sleep, sometimes reads aloud to herself for half an hour or more, then falls fast asleep with the lights on. World...
...Instant Dream. However long they sleep, many men and women have difficulty staying asleep for the desired number of hours. Mothers get the habit of sleeping "with one ear open," afraid they may miss a high-pitched cry from a child's bedroom. Men in their 40s and over are more likely to be waked by bladder pressure...
Thinking in large, impressive figures, as is his habit, Negligence Lawyer Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny...
...barely clear 6 ft. 8 in. "He was so far out of shape," says Duffy, "that one of my Holy Cross jumpers, a six-eight man at best, was beating him consistently." Almost at once, Duffy spotted a flaw in Thomas' motion. "John had picked up the bad habit of almost stopping and arching backward, right at the bar," he says. "He was losing all his spring that...
...smoker himself, Radford last night labelled smoking as "a messy, expensive habit," which is also extremely dangerous. "While I have no plans to become a crusader against smoking," he said, "I strongly urge everyone to stop at once...