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...Hobe Sound, Fla. He spent a couple of weeks playing tennis, reading books (17 in all) and trying to relax. He also dropped in on some old friends in the neighborhood, but after a few such visits his rest was almost ruined. Repeatedly, Scranton was given a sly wink, told what a cagey fellow he was to pretend that he didn't really want the 1964 G.O.P, presidential nomination, and assured that his political strategy was just right. One acquaintance let it be known that he had already underwritten $25,000 in Scranton-for-President campaign contributions...
...trust the clerk will read the Jour nal slowly and clearly," he drawled with a sly wink at Hubert Humphrey. The clerk did, thereby used up the better part of an hour. As soon as he finished...
...official stepped into a washroom to discover vodka coming out of the faucets. In a tiny village near Kielce, residents recently celebrated a local store's purchase of a new padlock by guzzling 141 quarts of vodka in one night. It hardly helps that minor Polish officials wink at the nation's drunks. When a man checked in at a Poznan sobering-up station for the 40th time not long ago, the $250 debt that he owed the state for previous nights in the cooler was wiped off the books to honor his record performance...
...with utter fidelity, the result is sometimes closer to strudel than soufflé. The orchestra plays impeccably, but without the elan that Paris gave to Offenbach, and he to it. Though every seat at every performance is filled with beaming burghers, the cancan line has not a single roguish wink for admiring males. Darmstadt is well pleased nonetheless. Landestheater Director Hering said last week that he plans to revive two more Offenbach works each year. At that rate, there'll be cancan for the burghers at least through the year...
...medical) name, insomnia, is now an even commoner complaint than the common cold, few doctors recognize it as a disorder. Lack of sleep, they say, is self-curing, and no one ever died of it. The complaint, "I tossed and turned all night and didn't sleep a wink," is a myth. (Dr. Kleitman has heard it from a man who had just been observed sleeping soundly for seven hours.) The most that these hard-headed doctors will concede is that anxiety about not getting to sleep is itself upsetting, and they will prescribe just a few hypnotics...