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Pretty Much Alone. At least twice in the week of the big event, Johnson had skipped lunch and missed his afternoon nap, and on Inauguration Day he had spent hours speaking and parade-watching without coat, hat or long underwear in chilling 43° Washington temperatures-although electric heaters were deployed near him. And that evening he had dashed in and out of five overcrowded, overheated ballrooms. Both Lady Bird and Daughter Lynda Bird had come down with colds after the ceremonies, and hoping not to expose the President, they had left for Camp David...
...Cover) It was during the President's usual nap time, and it took a little while before the call was put through. Finally, Carl Albert, majority leader of the House of Representatives, was able to say: "Mr. President, I'm here with the new minority leader, Jerry Ford, and the dean of the House, Manny Celler, to report that the House is organized and ready for business." "That's fine," said Lyndon Johnson...
...York Federal Reserve Bank, Vice President Charles Coombs and his aides worked through the night, some of them taking off a few hours to nap in "hotbeds" kept at the office for such emergencies; coordinating their efforts, Bank President Alfred Hayes was on the job before dawn, when European offices began to open. In Washington, Martin and Roosa each made pitches to half a dozen bankers overseas. It was, in fact, Roosa's swan song in Government after a distinguished four-year career; at week's end, in accordance with a previous plan, he submitted his resig nation...
When she was a girl, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 64, younger sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, awoke from a nap outdoors one day to find a cobra looming over her, its great hood spread. Soothsayers promptly foretold a remarkable career for her-and that she has had, as India's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1947-49), the U.S. (1949-52), and first and only woman President of the U.N. General Assembly (1953-54). Now eight times a grandmother, and Governor of Maharashtra state, Mme. Pandit has been chosen by the Congress Party as their candidate in next month...
...alert and physically active office patients, all 60 or older. When he divided them up by how much sleep they said they got, it turned out that those with the fewest complaints were those who slept eight hours or more, and most often those who also took an afternoon nap. Those who slept seven hours and less had the most complaints - vague tension, nervousness, lethargy and exhaustion...