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...Canada woke up on the morning of June 11, 1957, startled to discover that the Liberals had fallen to second place, winning only 105 seats to Diefenbaker's 112. After five days of thinking it over, St. Laurent decided that the nation had obviously lost confidence in the Liberals, and resigned...
There was this baseball fan, see, and one night he had a dream. The New York Mets were leading the National League, and the Los Angeles Angels were on top of the American League. "Crazy," said the fan when he woke up. "Crazy," agreed his psychiatrist, who was also a baseball fan. "But you know what? I had the same dream...
...Johnny woke up and felt...
...paid little mind to fishermen from Brittany who dropped their nets near by and returned home with holds filled with the live, spiny lobsters. Occasionally the Brazilian navy stopped a trawler for venturing too near shore, but there was little fuss about it. Then two months ago, local lobstermen woke up to the fact that the French were nipping quite a chunk out of their $3,000,000 annual export business. Hair-triggered Brazilian jingoists joined in the protest...
...through. Plagued for years by physical disabilities-a brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached for the nearest liquid on his bedside table. It happened to be highly flammable spirits of camphor...