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...colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one historian) "caused no governor-general a sleepless night." In 1942 the British awoke; as British troops retreated from Burma, the conquering Japanese made quick friends among Burmese politicians. In 1943, the British returned as liberators, but only to prepare a graceful exit...
Americans, including famed Marine Corps Ace Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington. Then he was challenged by a Japanese colonel who said, stiffly: "I have no authority to release these prisoners to you." Said Stassen: "Colonel, you have no authority, period." Stassen went sleepless for the first 70 hours; in 14 days he got 13,000 men to hospital ships...
...crowded, sleepless, dance-filled, dust-filled, wine-filled week of the festival of San Fermin at Pamplona is the climax of Spain's bullfighting year. Last week Spain's greatest season of the corrida in a generation came to a great climax. When the toro malo, the bad one with 21 painted on his side, lay dead in the sand, the aficionados had seen about all there was to see at bullfights...
...epileptics of normal or superior intelligence (glutamic acid had previously been used for treating epilepsy). The children got heavy daily doses (average: 12 grams), usually mixed with food, because glutamic acid by itself is sour, oily and unpalatable. In too big doses, the acid made the children restless and sleepless; in doses they could tolerate, it produced a remarkable improvement in alertness, drive, ability to solve problems. At the end of a year the children's I.Q.s had risen an average of eleven points. Their mental growth (a two-year advance in mental age) was twice as fast...
Over the years, Saskatchewan wheat farmers had spent many a sleepless night worrying how to meet the mortgage. On an average, they had to net $12 an acre before they showed a profit. In 1927, they averaged $18.91, but in 1932 the yield skidded to $4.76, which spelled wholesale defaults and forced sales...