Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clothes (Nehru wore European suits until his micros); of Nehru's longstanding passion for chocolate cake, pies and ice-cream sundaes; and of his continuing preference for English friends (like Lord and Lady Mountbatten). "It was Gandhi who once jokingly said, 'When Jawahar talks in his sleep, he speaks in English...
...ceasing is to pray the Prayer of Jesus. "The continuous interior Prayer of Jesus," the holy man says, "is a constant, uninterrupted calling upon the divine Name of Jesus with the lips, in the spirit, in the heart . . . during every occupation, at all times, in all places, even during sleep. The appeal is couched in these terms: 'Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' One who accustoms himself to this appeal . . . can no longer live without it, and it will continue to voice itself within him of its own accord." The peasant's teacher trains...
Dream Rug. For small fry afraid to go to sleep in the dark, Manhattan's Firth Carpet Co. has designed a phosphorescent nursery rug (4 ft. 6 in. by 6 ft.) that absorbs daylight and lamplight, glows for hours after the lights go out. Price: about...
Familiar Routine. Becoming Presidentelect of his Nebraska-size country (pop. 2,350,000) in last fortnight's election (TIME, Dec. 13) worked little change on Batlle Berres. He rose as usual at 6 o'clock, after six hours' sleep. At his newspaper Action, he dummied up the editorial page, writing some of it himself. Rakishly jamming on his hat, he went to lunch at a modest restaurant, where the waiters gathered to congratulate him; he stood up to shake hands with them all. In the afternoon he began reading through 6.000 congratulatory cables and telegrams...
Honeymoon. In La Spezia, Italy, Mario Cuffini, 32, and his bride Adriana, 24, were each sentenced to four months in jail for brawling, after Mario told the judge that he had lost his composure when his mother-in-law remarked: "I don't intend to let my daughter sleep alone with a man," insisted that she share the couple's bed or that he sleep alone on the wedding night, added to the insult by placing the bride's younger sister in the marital bed on the second night...