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After two weeks, the militants put Metrinko into a 6-ft. by 8-ft. basement storage room that was furnished with only a mattress. Says Metrinko: "When I was awake, I'd lean it against the wall because you couldn't move around with it on the floor." He spent four months there, volunteering to scrub toilets, mop floors, "do anything that got me out of that hole." He spent many of the hours reading, including The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's grim portrait of Soviet prison life. Says Metrinko dryly: "I can't imagine...
Poor sleep posture is a sure invitation to backaches. Use a firm mattress. Lie on the side with a bend to the knees. Avoid lying on the belly, a position that increases the spine's lumbar curve, causing that familiar sagging called swayback...
...soak for an hour in a hot bath. The pain is aggravated by rides in bouncing buses and by nights in the soft, sometimes sagging beds of supporters' homes. Kennedy takes along a bed board, which helps, but whenever possible, he sleeps on the firm and familiar mattress of his cam in Hyannis Port. Late last week, after 17 straight days of campaigning, he flew to West Palm Beach, Fla., for a day of relaxation in his mother's mansion. One of its useful features: a whirlpool bath...
Filartiga did not retreat to nurse his pain in private. Instead he laid his son's naked body, mauled and burnt, in state on the bloody mattress just as he found him. He encouraged hundreds to file by and see the evidence for themselves. Filartiga next distributed photographs of his son and the details of his death to the Paraguayan papers. Several newspapers printed the pictures and ran the full story. Finally, Filartiga filed a homicide suit against the police inspector and three other members of the force...
...Gary Gilmore, 36, a Utah murderer who refused to appeal his conviction and death sentence and demanded that the state kill him. Utah obliged, but only after a ritual that turned Gilmore into a grotesque celebrity. Shortly before the prisoner was seated in front of a dirty mattress to face the firing squad, ABC-TV's Geraldo Rivera was screaming into his mike to his producers at Good Morning, America in New York: "Kill the Rona segment. Get rid of it. Give me air. You'll be able to hear the shots. I promise...