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About 40 percent of a year's business is conducted during the four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Square merchants said yesterday. The Friday after Thanksgiving is generally considered the busiest shopping day of the year...
Last year alone, 4.4 million pilgrims came from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The annual influx of visitors, which has grown by nearly 40% since 1966, has transformed Lourdes (pop. 18,096) into one of the busiest tourist spots in France. Only Paris and Nice have more hotel rooms. As the first reigning Pontiff to visit Lourdes, John Paul was also affixing a sort of Vatican seal of approval to a Catholic shrine that is controversial as well as popular...
Three hours later, the customer drives through, has the sacks loaded into his car and gives his check (which includes a $1.50 service charge) to an attendant. The store, a 37,000-sq.-ft. former manufacturing plant located near two of Los Angeles' busiest freeways, can handle 300 cars an hour. Doubtless there will still be shoppers who want to sniff a fish or squeeze an avocado, so the old-fashioned neighborhood grocery will be around a while...
...member radiation protection group is one of EHS's busiest. It is responsible for overseeing the approximately 2700 Harvard workers who deal with radioactive material or X-ray machines. The group deals particularly frequently with researchers who are working on cancer related projects in Harvard's labs and teaching hospitals. It also watches over such matters as the disposal of radioactive wastes, the training of approximately 500 people annually to deal with radio-iodine materials and accident investigation...
...eagerly awaited the arrival of the supply boat that came from Britain every three months. Last week the harbor was filled with at least 17 warships and merchant vessels, and the locals have grown so blasé that only word of a Royal Navy submarine stirs much interest. The busiest part of town is the jetty, where supplies are taken off the ships and soldiers come and go all day. Trucks hauling machinery and building supplies snort up the hills toward Stanley Airport, which is crowded with Phantom and Harrier jets and ringed by gleaming Rapier antiaircraft missiles...