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There were others. Liston seemed to be surrounded by curious people-like Nevada Gambler Ash Resnick, described as "athletic director" of a Las Vegas hotel, who was in Sonny's corner on the night he lost the title. And Pep Barone, a Palermo factotum, who was a ubiquitous visitor at Liston's training camp. ("Sonny thinks Pep is good luck," explained Nilon. "He's very superstitious.") The tenderness of the hearings reached a high point with the testimony of paradoxical Edward Lassman, a member of the Miami Beach Boxing Commission, which gave its official blessing...
Relax & Enjoy It. Short of the outright sleeping pills, which doctors call hypnotics, there are many drugs that help to bring on sleep, but these also affect different people in different ways. Ironically, some of the best-known pep pills put some people to sleep. Many of the antihistamines, intended to relieve allergies, are also prescribed as soporifics. Virtually all the tranquilizers tend to make falling asleep easier, but their mechanisms vary...
...items which, by federal law, must contain none of the potent opiates or barbiturates. After the harried insomniac has spent a few hours in drug-induced sleep, he is likely to wake up heavy-lidded, furry-tongued, with the feeling known as barbiturate hangover. Then he may turn to pep-up pills as an antidote...
More than 1000 students will jam M.I.T.'s gymnasium at 6:30 this evening, and the occasion is not a lecture on cybernetics--it's a pep rally...
...first suffered by the Tigers all year and was perhaps the most bitter they have experienced in years. Princeton has not beaten Harvard in the Stadium since 1957 and practically every. One at Nassau was certain that the time had come for a change. In a spirited pep rally in Princeton last Thursday, the first well-attempted session in some time, the Tigers players had told their followers that "we are going to kill them this time...