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...Sleepless Nights. As an expert, Thompson convinced cattlemen that high-priced bulls were cheapest in the end, because of the vast improvement the animals made in their herds. He has collected as much as $90,000 in fees in a single year. (For the Thornton sale...
...islands in flooded areas. Brahmin priests performed propitiation ceremonies to the goddess of earth and the god of destruction. The quake had not yet spent itself. Hills were still disappearing and new hills were rising out of the laboring earth. Peasants in the area sat in numb and sleepless terror, watching tumblers half-filled with water for signs of further tremors. At the slightest trembling of the water, they would rush frantically to open ground. At week's end New Delhi heard that the death toll was close...
Merlyn S. Pitzele (rhymes with ritzily), labor editor of Business Week, has insomnia. To while away the sleepless hours one night last winter, he wondered about the one headline that U.S. newspaper editors would most like to print. In the morning, he wrote to 69 newspapers from New York to Los Angeles...
...Springfield, Ohio one night, two pledges of the Wittenberg College chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, exhausted after two sleepless-nights of initiation preliminaries, were driven eight miles out of town and left to make their own way back. Hit by a truck at 8 a.m. after they had fallen asleep on the edge of the road, one was killed, the other injured. Wittenberg ordered officers of the fraternity to resign, suspended its charter for the rest of the year...
...more bizarre requests which have been received in recent weeks was one from Massachusetts General Hospital. The doctors were in search of a student who would submit to a series of tests after being kept awake for 48 straight hours. The obliging guinea pig pocketed $20 for his sleepless nights. Another freshman allowed his intestinal tract to be explored by means of a series of tubes through his nose and down his throat...