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...Lippert was different very different. He was you see an animal. He hibernated for more than 12 hours each day emerging between 1 and 2 p.m. After lunch and a quick nap he would arise again to rough-house until 2 a.m., when he would again hit the sack. On weekends he caught up on his sleep...
American Ambassador Ulric Haynes Jr. and his wife Yolande hastily cleared out spare bedrooms at the embassy for Christopher and his colleagues. The sleeping arrangements hardly mattered. Over the next twelve days, the U.S. negotiators would rarely nap for more than two hours at a stretch...
There is absolutely no correlation between long hours of desk drudgery and success in the presidency. It was Lyndon Johnson who instituted the two-days-in-one work routine, claiming prodigious achievements that began at 10 a.m. and ran until 4 p.m., then a two-hour nap, followed by work from 6 p.m. to midnight or so. Secretaries and assorted aides came in two shifts. There is the faint suspicion that if Johnson had throttled back a bit, we would be in less trouble today...
...Ayatullah Khomeini for target practice. At the huge port sprawling along the Shatt al Arab, stacks of mammoth loading containers, stripped of their spoils by Iraqi invaders, are tangled with rusted steel pipes and charred, broken cranes. In makeshift barracks built under pylons, a few off-duty soldiers nap or thumb through magazines to pass the idle time...
...Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Each vignette, Kuralt hoped, would provide "a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that this country is." In sharp contrast to the rest of the news, his stories celebrated qualities of playfulness, compassion, pride, and individual accomplishment. Says he: "I could never nap or read in the camper. I was forever looking out the window, afraid I would miss something...