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...rose higher in the lunar sky and temperatures climbed toward 270° F. Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists prepared to shut down their successful Surveyor spacecraft for a two-day siesta. Then they suddenly discovered that the protective shadows of Surveyor's solar panel and rectangular high-gain antenna had fallen over the television camera, keeping it cool enough to shoot pictures for an extra day. Before the camera was again directly exposed to the sun's rays and had to be turned off, Surveyor raised its picture total to an incredible 4,002. After the siesta...
McKenzie spent 18 years at West Baden, and "hated every minute of it. The place was a cultural desert." He finally got a new assignment only when a fellow Jesuit complained that his afternoon typing disturbed the seminary's customary siesta. McKenzie then went to the Jesuits' Loyola University in Chicago, where he taught Biblical studies until last year...
After the last seven games--the Holy Cross massacre excepted--it is hard to believe that the Crimson defense will not take at least one deleterious siesta during tomorrow's 60 minutes...
...siesta is disappearing, not because the Spaniard no longer wants his afternoon snooze but because he no longer has time to take it. So crowded have Spain's cities become that it would take him most of his three-hour lunch break to get home and back. The rush to the cities has had another effect as well. It is slowly breaking down the old regional barriers that have always divided Spain. There are still separatists in Barcelona, but their cause is dying fast: half the working force of Catalonia is now composed of forasteros from other parts...
...rugged, reformist Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei is nothing if not ambitious. Not only has he promised to end Chile's spiraling inflation and redistribute the land-but he has challenged an even more sacred institution: the three-hour lunch hour, with its hallowed tradition of siesta...