Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...places around the Square and the Yard it was beginning to show. Passing the Music Box record shop on Holyoke Street, one could see two Harvard men sit down before a phonograph and begin to listen to all the 5000 records in the store. The one who went to sleep first lost, but got $10 anyway; the winner received $25. Paramount and M-G-M sent news cameramen and Fox Movietone was reported to be interested in recording the event...
Even today Ignotus refuses to give details of the advanced methods used by the AVO ("These are things I want to forget"), but is ready to talk of the lack-of-sleep technique which "though not a strong enough torture to induce people to confess," has its own terrors. "At a certain point you go to sleep all the same," he says, "even standing with a light glaring in your eyes. It is not a proper sleep, but a kind of half-dreamed nightmare. Hungarian prisoners call it 'the cinema,' and when you say you 'have been...
...University of California researchers gave about four jiggers of bourbon each to 18 alcoholics, told them to lie down on a surgical table. Most subjects complied, made no fuss. A week later they got the whisky with the tranquilizer chlorpromazine: some lay down on the table, promptly went to sleep and snored loudly; others became loud and boisterous; some were "gay and irresponsible"; most had slurred speech. By blood tests, the researchers found that the drug had not only increased the effect of alcohol but had actually boosted the amount circulating in the blood and brain, and had altered...
...police termed the entire affair a hoax, and allowed these of the girls that were awake to go back to sleep...
Silent Night. In Akron, Mrs. Katherine Ferrell, mother of 17, jailed overnight for drunkenness, told the judge her stay was "the first good night's sleep I've had for 20 years...