Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defenders of the present schedule fear that an extra half hour of sleep would induce an era of lethargy and decadence, but their practical objections are slight. Latecomers would not interfere with preparations for lunch if they regularly ate at specified tables. Dining hall authorities admit that later breakfast would add little to expense, since "the girls have to work eight hours anyway." Even a late menu of coffee and toast would save money for students who now breakfast in the Square...
...adds up to an exacting job done under high-speed pressure-and Bob Boyd is the man for it. For one thing, he is 100-proof tireless. He suspects that the average man gets too much sleep, and claims that four or five hours a night is about right for himself. He is seldom, if ever, sick. He considers the onset of a common cold a personal affront, and has a theory that the way to lick it is to stay up and fight it. These attributes have had an astonishing effect on Boyd's staff. They...
...settled by the President. The President paid no heed either to the unfriendly weather or to Clifford's awkward status. He had paper work to do: it involved clubs, hearts, spades & diamonds and an occasional nip of bourbon & branch water. After all, early-rising Harry Truman could sleep in the morning at Key West-and sometimes he did, as late as 8 o'clock...
Material pleasures attract to the Gold Coast, every year gourmets, scholars jazz flends, and sleep lovers, who like to stay in bed until five minutes before their classes. Lover's of the a synthetic can enjoy the House's fine print collection and hundreds of classical recordings; athletes can paddle in the pool or batter the ball on Adams' private squash courts...
...achievement or his natural bent for storytelling: how he was chased by Moroccan pirates, rode out a tidal wave off the Patagonian coast, spent weeks beating his way through the Strait of Magellan and fighting off marauding Tierra del Fuego Indians. One night, glassy-eyed from lack of sleep and unable to stand watch any longer, he went below for rest-after sprinkling the deck with carpet tacks that had been brought along for just such an emergency. The barefooted Fuegians came aboard at midnight. Reported the laconic Slocum: "The savages thought they 'had me,' sloop...