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...move, Ford has a rare ability to grab brief bits of total sleep. Last week in Topeka he cat-napped in his hotel, woke up after 20 minutes as if he had been given a shot of adrenaline. He does that on Air Force One with remarkable recuperative results. Once, traveling in a limousine to a student meeting, Ford suddenly told an aide, "I think I'll take a little nap." He settled back and went sound asleep, so sound that the aide had to wake him when he got to his destination. Ford then gave a speech...
...woke up feeling very paranoid. Too much dope, he thought...
...infrequent touchdowns and before Csonka had his NASA-engineered suspension helmet--in his first year in the league it was an existential crisis when the big guy plunged into the line because he was always getting knocked unconscious. A runaway truck with an eggshell bumper. Five times he woke up on the sidelines while an awful lot of people held their breath...
Police reported that York woke to flames, found the door to his room blocked, and attempted to exit by the window. Because the lower half of first-floor windows on the street side of Lowell House are barred, York broke through the top half of his window with his fist and escaped to the street. He lacerated his wrist in the process...
...said he had a lot of mushrooms, then went to Spudnick's for a couple of beers. On the way home he just nodded out at 60 or 70 mph and woke up as his bike hit the loose gravel at the side of the road. "I bailed out," said Kenny, "so the bike wouldn't fall on my leg, but held onto the handlebar so the bike wouldn't roll back on me while we were both spinning around. It's sort of good to know it happened when I was so fucked up that I didn't know...