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...city's high unemployment. To make matters worse, his immigration papers authorize employment only until Jan. 15. Meanwhile, like most other Cuban refugees, he is ineligible for welfare. Trapped in this legal limbo and unwilling to burden his half sister any longer, Benitez is now sleeping on a cot in an unheated garage, living on earnings from odd jobs and handouts from friends. Says he: "It's starting to get cold...
...Americans, as Toland puts it, finally got a chance to "show the world that [they] could fight as well as talk," and the counterattacks began. The overextended German army collapsed. In November the Kaiser resigned, and a scrappy little corporal, twice decorated for gallantry, flung himself on his hospital cot and wept. On the spot, Adolf Hitler swore he would devote his life to avenging his betrayed country...
...Hawk, a 75-ft. teardrop of fragile polyethylene filled with 200,000 cu. ft. of helium. Dangling from the balloon was an 11-ft. by 5-ft. red, white and blue gondola. It carried the Andersons and 5,000 lbs. of ballast and supplies, including ten radios, a folding cot, a backgammon board and a week's worth of fried chicken, peanut butter and chocolate-chip cookies...
According to the British newspapers, all these critical steps in the Brown case ? removal of the eggs, fertilization in the laboratory and implantation ? took place in a small turn-of-the-century institution called Dr. Kershaw's Cot age Hospital, amid green fields about a mile from the hospital where Mrs. Brown awaits the birth. Steptoe has done much of his fertilization work there, using four rooms, plus a small adjoin theater, that are all protected by locks, sliding doors and a red warning light...
Immediately after entering the garage, the runners walked into the medical area. Some took blankets and walked out to get refreshments and their baggage. But many others sprawled across a cot, succumbing to the pain and violent shivers of exhaustion...