Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they tried to dream oftener, up to 30 times on the fifth night. In contrast to the control subjects, who were wakened only after dreaming, this group became irritable and upset during waking hours. Their reactions resembled those of Disk Jockey Peter Tripp during his 200-hour sleep-deprivation marathon (TIME, Feb. 9, 1959): at first easily upset, he began hallucinating on about the fourth sleepless...
After the Marathon. Governor Brown called the special session of the state legislature to consider his proposal to abolish capital punishment, but even before the session started, Brown decided that he could not win. The lawmakers were sore at him for "passing the buck," as they grumblingly put it, and a poll showed that sentiment in the legislature was running 4 to 1 against saving Caryl Chessman from the gas chamber. Many legislators felt strongly that Chessman had been escaping justice too long. Facing defeat, Brown decided not to fight, tamely placated fellow Democrats in the legislature by agreeing...
Last week, though the outcome was already decided, the committee held a marathon 16-hour hearing to listen to witnesses for and against capital punishment. When the final witness wound up his testimony, past midnight, the committee got down to its business, and by a vote of 8 to 7 blackjacked Brown's proposal (amended at the last minute to call for a 3½-year moratorium rather than outright abolition of capital punishment...
...unsympathetic courtroom, Rene Floriot, one of the best and most expensive of Parisian criminal lawyers, delivered a marathon defense oration that ended with "Mais non, all I am trying to say is that you cannot find a man guilty on this kind of evidence." Swiss newspapers fumed at French journalists who suggested that Jaccoud was being railroaded because he had blemished the reputation of conservative, Calvinist Geneva. Students angrily burned copies of Paris-Match on a city square...
Favorite Target. The anger thus generated turned naturally on Castro's favorite target, the U.S. On his TV marathon, Castro had charged that U.S. business was responsible for Cuba's history of "stealing, killing, granting concession, subjugating national interests." He accused the U.S. of sending light planes to make incendiary raids on Cuban sugar fields, and charged that "a certain chancellery" was plotting his assassination. "That is the Alpha Plan of the counterrevolutionaries" he said sneeringly...