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...recent months there seems to have been a certain mellowing in Spivak's manner, on the air and off, which is perhaps the result of a heart attack he suffered last year. He has added a nap to his daily schedule and withdrawn from the position of lead-off questioner on the show's panel, taking over the more detached role of moderator. Still, flashes of the old Spivak occur. To Edmund Muskie, fence-straddling on the challenge to McGovern's California delegates at the Democratic Convention: "Senator, why is it so hard for you to come...
...towering oak as they sipped iced tea, then going inside the ranch house for a steak lunch, the trio chatted for almost three hours. L.B.J. offered some campaign advice: talk to people on the phone for at least two hours every day; make sure you get a solid nap every day in your pajamas...
After the press conference Tuesday in the Black Hills, I left for Los Angeles feeling relieved. In fact, I took a nap on the plane. The Eagleton low point started when I got off the plane. There was a bank of microphones, a lot of reporters -more than I'd ever seen in my life. I had mistakenly assumed that once having answered all these questions in South Dakota, I did not have to answer them again. Then I did an awful local TV show. The reporter kept asking questions and I kept declining to answer-an atrocious performance...
...time Le Huan Street was a peaceful residential area close enough to the center of town so that the petits bourgeois who lived there could close up their downtown shops and come home for lunch and a nap. Now the street belongs to the dead and wounded. It looks like a vast denuded forest: dozens of steel corner posts mark the boundaries of burned-out houses. Sheets of rusted tin, the roofs of demolished houses, litter the ground...
...Sunday school; at age eleven she was sitting in for Mom at the 11 o'clock service. She entered Howard University on a partial music scholarship at 15, and at 20 was teaching music in Washington junior high schools. After school she would rush home for a nap, then play at Mr. Henry's Georgetown branch until...