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...chicken soup she loved to cook. She met Prime Ministers and Presidents at the grandest of diplomatic dinners wearing her severely cut suits and orthopedic shoes. She tolerated bodyguards with reluctance but would often brew tea for them in the morning's small hours on some of her sleepless nights...
...nearly elected to the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma, a heavily Democratic state. But he is a restless and supercharged man, although he usually fools people by keeping his emotions tightly reined, and he could find no more heady challenge than football. He accepts the frustrations and the sleepless Sunday nights, when he replays a loss so vividly in his mind that he can see every detail: Punter Steve Little fumbling the ball against Dallas, for instance...
...Tennessee with a busload of middle-aged women hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young and sweet, and who now spends sleepless nights in the cab of a tractor-trailer rig, squinting out over burning cigarettes at interstate highways as she roams from city to city, transporting sides of beef and chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated trailer. And that was how I came to be chatting with a man carrying a revolver...
...Another sleepless night in a bomb shelter, another morning of dazed kibbutzniks. At least this time I am wiser, and bring along a blanket and toothbrush...
...HAVEN--The Crimson linksters spent a sleepless night here at the New Haven Motor Inn imagining their blankets were links of eiderdown as each fairway billowed and twisted with every toss and turn...