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Such restrictions failed to discourage potential passengers. Reservations lines were jammed last week as consumers rushed to book trips. To cope with the crush, American ticket agents were put on a six-day work week, part-timers were asked to work full time, and vacations were canceled. American, which expects to sell some 5 million seats at the new fares over the next three months, hopes to hit discounters like People Express hard by pampering passengers at comparable prices...
...eavesdropper at the continent's largest dog show, caught in the crush of humanity and canines, scarcely able to move, could not help overhearing such telling bits of dialogue as these...
...foot and bicycles, residents moved as fast as they could. As in some eerie science-fiction nightmare, hundreds of people blinded by the gas groped vainly toward uncontaminated air or stumbled into one another in the darkness. Others simply collapsed by the side of the road in the crush. At least 37 people who had inhaled the fumes died hours later from the effects, having reached what they thought was safety...
Advertising on cable television is only part of what the Harvard Cooperative Society is doing to gear up for the holiday crush o, customers at its six Boston-area stores. Officials in the Harvard Square headquarters say they're expecting 50 percent more people this month than in Novermber--largely because in the month before Christmas the store will be open a total of 109 extra hours, including every Sunday...
Alcorn also cites parking garages on Kennedy Street and in the Niles building on Mass Ave., which are currently under construction. Currently operating garages in Holyoke Center and at the Gulf Station on Mass Avenue will also handle some of the crush...