Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head off, and shoot 31 minutes of rapids in a hollow log...
...Harriet Chapel, a little Methodist church near Camp David, Md.; St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington; St. John's Episcopal Church, on Lafayette Square across from the White House; Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church in Washington; and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, Texas, an old log cabin that can seat 30 people on a busy Sunday...
These "facts" strike the reader as a bit incongruous; Walter Winchell for one, has a log in his eye, while the rewrite man may have only a sliver in his. Besides, spoofing Time is pretty old stuff, pretty cheap entertainment...
...like a Log. There is no single best position for falling asleep, though the Encyclopaedia Britannica says all humankind adopts an approximately horizontal position. This is in contrast with birds, which sleep standing on one leg, with beak tucked under wing. Most people sleep on their sides, spending more time on one than the other, and tend to bend the hips and draw up the knees a little, the better to relax. Sleeping supine is likely to cause snoring, which may wake the sleeper himself, besides disturbing others...
Though many people claim that once they fall asleep they don't move, Dr. Kleitman is emphatic: "No normal person sleeps 'like a log.' " Anyone gets uncomfortable from staying in one position while asleep, just as he would while awake. To check this, his University of Chicago researchers rigged up Rube Goldberg devices to bedsprings and got electrical recordings of sleepers' tossing and turning. The average: 20 to 60 major movements during a night's sleep...