Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sheinberg says that the volunteers are optimistic, and hope that SafeStreets will gain popularity by next year. "I have a great time doing it and the loss of sleep really doesn't bother me," Sheinberg says. "I stay up late to do problem sets on Thursday nights anyway...
Residents of northern Colorado can sleep a little easier now that 82-year-old Jack Kelm is back behind bars. Two weeks ago, police nabbed the octogenarian as he pedaled away from an alleged stickup at a Longmont, Colo., bank on a stolen bicycle. Kelm has confessed to a string of stickups committed, he said, to supplement his Social Security check. With a rap sheet covering nearly seven decades, he is believed to be the oldest bank robber on record. If convicted of all charges, Kelm could be sentenced to 120 years in the slammer...
From the Washington Bureau--A reporter at last Sunday's March on Washington for abortion rights, suffering from a bleeding ankle and too little sleep, was milling around the Harvard Radcliffe delegation when an unidentified woman came up to her and said, "Your foot is bleeding--you need some socks. Take these." The reporter did as instructed, but when she turned around to thank the sock-giver, the mysterious benefactor had disappeared...
...flat. As written, the would-be feminist princess sounds like a selfsatisfied prig, and Salm's portrayal reinforces that impression. When her assistant Lady Blanche (Linda Bielski) mocks Ida behind her back, the audience sympathizes. Lady Blanche, at least, keeps the audience awake by putting the orchestra to sleep with a song/philosophy lecture. Bielski, a professional actress, is easily the show's best female performer...
...black wavy hair makes him look a decade younger than his 62 years, has turned down repeated offers of ministry jobs in Moscow. "I'm in love with what I'm doing now. Besides, I do more good here. So far, I have had no bad flukes, so I sleep pretty well. But there are a lot of general managers in the Soviet Union who don't sleep well at all these days." As any capitalist would tell them, a little restlessness is good for business...