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...This happened," he said, "at Republican on Long Island, N.Y. recently and 13,000 men woke up without work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hughes' Labor Policy Welcomed By State AFL-CIO Convention | 10/6/1962 | See Source »

...Well, about 7:30 last night I went in, went in the house, laid down and took off my clothes...and tried to go to sleep. And all of a sudden I woke up and my heart, and body, it was, it was just beating; and I felt real good all over... And then I got sudden fear--that feeling, you know, and more excitement. And then I thought of what I'd say as I was talking into this tape recorder... And then you said 'For the good talk, here's an extra dollar.' And I said 'money, money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Project Helps J.D.'s By Tape-Recording Their Views | 9/24/1962 | See Source »

...Behr woke up to the backwardness of Albania early in his stay. Setting out to replace a razor (he had lost his suitcase in Budapest), he discovered that the only kind available was locally made−and lethal. It worked only by taking off large slices of skin. Behr mentioned this casually to his Albanian guide, who replied simply: "There is always some trouble about our razor." The shopping trip had one advantage: Behr got one of his few chances to talk alone with a native Albanian, a pharmacist who had been to Paris years ago. and who plaintively asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 10, 1962 | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...cleans out the subconscious like lye in a septic tank. Impressed with his own progress under its influence, Grant delivered a confessional lecture at U.C.L.A.: "I was a self-centered boor," he told an audience of fascinated students. "I was masochistic and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, 'There must be something wrong with me,' I grew up." In a subsequent interview he explained how he grew up: "Because I never understood myself, how could I have hoped to understand anyone else? That's why I say that now I can truly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Old Cary Grant Fine | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...groups of rats. All were wakened within seconds by radiation too weak to hurt them. To make sure that the rats were not seeing the radiation as humans do with dark-adapted eyes, the scientists simply cut out some of the rats' eyes. But the surgically blinded rats woke up even faster than the others, as if their sensitivity had sharpened like the hearing and touch of a blinded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Avoid Radiation Without Really Knowing It | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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