Word: nap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By this time, the possibilities had been reduced to five: Senator Charles Percy; Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch of California, a longtime Nixon friend and associate; Congressman Rogers Morton of Maryland; Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts ("It might be nice," Nixon observed, "to have an Italian Catholic on the ticket...
...thus interest of volunteers through electrodes clamped to their hands. Another device is the "pupillary-response camera." It records the dilations of the viewer's pupils as he watches a test commercial. If the subject likes what he sees, his pupils widen; if not, he can catch a little nap time...
...GRANDPA IS A PIRATE, by Jan Loof (Harper & Row; $2.95). A small boy and his grandfather have an exciting make-believe adventure with pirates and return before grandmother has even awakened from her nap...
...point in June Steel's wretched Kien-holtz on Exhibit (UCLA) when bad shots of the sculpture degenerated into fourth-rate cinema verite interviews with the spectators, I decided to take a nap, and slept happily straight through it until the big film (first prize, dramatic division) came on, George Lucas's THX 1138 4EB (USC), which is as dazzling as advance reports (Newsweek's, among others) had suggested. Lucas's premise comes direct from Alphaville and 1984: in a computer-run dehumanized society where everyone is numbered and serves a function, one man is in undefined revolt. The entire...
What's this? The towering Fenway arc-lights burn brightly. Can there be more to come? Of course, that's it--it's all a mistake. Yaz is in there taking post-game batting practice. He'll nap before tomorrow's game, belt a couple of homers, and the Sox will be champions of the world...