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...carries to bed with him the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physiology: Mens Sana In Corpore Sano | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Nearly one hundred schools from across the country will attend the tournament, but representation will be heaviest among Western and Southern schools. Texas University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University, will be among the school's present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Tournament Begins This Weekend | 1/29/1964 | See Source »

...Government attempt to limit overtime would meet fierce opposition from management. Many companies prefer to schedule overtime rather than train someone new, because experienced hands give them better work and save them the expense of added fringe benefits for a new employee. The industries with some of the heaviest overtime are autos, where workers spend 5.4 extra hours a week in the plant, cement (6.6 hr.), grain mill products (7.3 hr.), and paper (5.6 hr.). Thus, even with overtime, few workers work more than a 46-hour week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Debate About Overtime | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...less attractive images. The General remembers the four untidy years he spent in London squabbling with British and American authorities while the French Communists fought to liberate France. Nor has he forgotten that the Americans long refused to recognize his government in exile, and that Winston Churchill quipped, "The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine...

Author: By Fitzhugh S.M. Mullan, | Title: DeGaulle's Republic | 11/20/1963 | See Source »

...thing the officials forgot to mention was that included among the 1202 were some 70-odd football players with the hardest noses, fattest calves, roundest necks, and heaviest frames on the lightest feet of any athletes ever to set foot in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/14/1963 | See Source »

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