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...Lyndon Johnson imperially summoned him to the White House to tell him that he was to be the Democratic vice-presidential candidate of 1964, L.B.J. let Humphrey just sit in the White House limousine on the drive for half an hour. Hubert did not get angry. He took a nap. When Johnson, carrying his lesson of authority further, left him waiting outside the door of the Oval Office, Hubert plucked a book from a shelf and read about Thomas Jefferson...
...bronze face. He wore zippered black boots and a tailored suit, which gave him the look of a Mediterranean dandy, but his deep rugged voice spoke with authority. As usual, Sadat had slept late. He insists on at least eight hours of sleep, as well as a daily afternoon nap, which his wife Jihan thinks is too much. Sadat has a clock radio that he always sets himself; he falls asleep and wakes up to the all-music station in Cairo. He keeps a loaded pistol on the same table...
...pleased to tell you and the sophisticated French philosophers, with their sophisticated language, that Marx is not dead at all. I think he is very much alive all over this land, and he doesn't have time even to take a nap here...
...also turned conducting into a spectator sport, giving the role of conductor a panache that has not yet been surpassed. When he died last week of a heart attack during a morning nap at his farmhouse in an English village called Nether Wallop, a titan of music was gone, an era ended. At age 95, he had been expecting to go to London to make another album for Columbia Records...
...Rodney Cline Carew, the best damn hitter in baseball. He is the only man of his generation with the gifts-and the hard-won mastery of the art of hitting-to have a shot at joining the select club of the .400 hitters, which includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Bill Terry. In an era when batters must contend with night games and coast-to-coast jet lag -handicaps that the oldtimers never faced-the intense first baseman of the Minnesota Twins was hitting .402 last week and had been...