Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advance people, who smoothly guide the candidates and their families through the convention, sometimes have to do more than organize. On Monday night during former President Jimmy Carter's speech, Kitty Dukakis, worn out from the excitement of the week, started nodding off to sleep. After consulting with other staff people, her advance woman made her way over to the governor's wife and gently poked her in order to ask a strategic question...
...backup strategy requires sneaking near the rail yard to board in darkness. Railroad police are everywhere with spotlights. No sleep again. Just after midnight they find a grain car with a narrow porch. Twenty minutes later, the freight pauses to add an engine, and aliens from the Mexican border clamber aboard frantically. Finally, the clickety-clack commences for the last time. A hobbyist road-named the "Gentle Giant" defines this moment. "You face nature, and the train is your friend," he says. "All your senses are alive. You'll love your wife, your children and your home better." Three weary...
...years Syndicated Columnist Carl T. Rowan has been an advocate of strict gun control. But when roused from sleep last week by what he believed was an intruder at the bedroom window of his Washington home, Rowan forgot his own counsel. After calling the police, he loaded a handgun and went outside. Rowan says he came face to face with a "tall man who was smoking something that I was absolutely sure was marijuana." After the man ignored warnings and lunged toward him, says Rowan, he fired once, wounding the intruder in the wrist. Police identified the trespasser...
...implications of the decline for both the global economy and individual consumers." Economy & Business Editor Charles Alexander coordinated TIME's 24-page section with the assistance of more than 55 staff members. "This was truly team journalism," says Alexander. "It was also one of those stories where the only sleep you got was on the office couch...
...value prizes partly because they make up for the lost sleep and extra effort it takes to stay at the cutting edge of journalism, but also as evidence of the unique quality we put between our covers. The Hancock Award is one of 46 prizes TIME has won this year. The July 27, 1987, cover story, "The Gorbachev Era," earned the Overseas Press Club's Hallie and Whit Burnett Award as the best general magazine story on foreign affairs. "Air Travel -- How Safe Is It?" (Jan. 12, 1987) picked up an Award of Excellence from the Aviation-Space Writers Association...