Word: insomniacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Died. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were...
...often savage wit, the book reduces major philosophical questions to potted, page-long parables. Seryozha, for instance, loses his faith in God (Stalin) because, when he goes out with his school comrades to harvest potatoes, he discovers that the "electric plows" of Soviet propaganda do not exist. The insomniac Karlinsky wonders why death has not yet been abolished. And to match his vision of "The Future," one would have to go back to the indignatio saeva of Swift himself...