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...state laws, and many prescriptions are forged. Americans spend an estimated $60 million a year, legally or not, on prescription-type sleeping pills. Another $17 million goes for over-the-counter items which, by federal law, must contain none of the potent opiates or barbiturates. After the harried insomniac has spent a few hours in drug-induced sleep, he is likely to wake up heavy-lidded, furry-tongued, with the feeling known as barbiturate hangover. Then he may turn to pep-up pills as an antidote...
...Fanfani marched his moderate Christian Democratic Party through the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) into a parliamentary partnership with the left-wing Socialists, he acknowledged the deal as a dangerous gamble. "We shall certainly have some sleepless nights," he said. By now, Fanfani must be a hopeless insomniac...
When it is played coolly and efficiently, baseball can sometimes be pretty dull. There is an insomniac in Manhattan who gave up Seconal for the Yankees. But sloppy baseball can be fun to watch-as it was last week, when the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers fumbled and bumbled their way through a wacky three-game playoff for the National League pennant. All it proved was that while the club owners could take the boys away from Coogan's Bluff and Flatbush, they could never take the old ways away from the boys. And while...
That at least seems certain. A chronic insomniac, who props his head on three down pillows, Newhouse spends the dark hours looking back over 40 years and ahead to however many years are left. "I just toss and wonder what paper I'll buy tomorrow," he says. "I'm not tired. But the nights are awfully long...
...confirmed insomniac, Dutch Engineer Hubert J. van Doorne, 62, flees to his drawing board whenever he cannot sleep. So far, Van Doorne has stayed awake there long enough to win 102 automotive patents, including one for the automatic transmission used in the two-cylinder DAF cars he began to make five years ago. DAF, which brags that "The Dutch Took the Clutch out of the Compact Car," sold 16.000 vehicles last year. To meet this year's goal of 25,000 cars, Van Doorne has had a hard time finding enough workers in the labor-short Netherlands, recently took...