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...strangely quiet locker room, and you steel yourself for the still-cold March air over the river. The rest of your crew arrives and the coxswain organizes you for taking out the shell: Four-man shells today. Your bare feet welcome the warmth of the sun-bathed dock, and the boat slides into the water easily...
...passengers on the 2½-hour trip to the Suez Canal. As the highway stretches into the desert, the horizon is broken only by an occasional military encampment, gas station or Marlboro billboard in Arabic. Soon clumps of palm trees signal the town of Ismailia and the Suez ferry dock at Qantara...
...Jimmy Buffett for his immaturity. For in this track, it seems as if he has really gone around the grown-up bend. Voicing fatherly endearments to little Savannah Jane (not the sailboat) as well as reflections on his own aging, Buffett appears to have tied up at convention's dock...
About 7:10 p.m., according to a report filed by two FBI agents, a gray Navy ambulance arrived at the rear loading dock near the hospital's morgue. The agents, James Sibert and Francis O'Neill, helped move the bronze casket from it to the morgue. But at the entrance, they were briefly stopped by the Secret Service; Lifton says the agents were stalled so they would not discover that Kennedy's body was already in the morgue...
...Gdansk and Gdynia, coal miners in Silesia, and most of the 16,000 workers at the giant Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw, threatened to force the demand by not showing up for work on Saturday. The Ministry of Labor, Wages and Social Affairs responded by instructing factory managers to dock the pay of workers who did not report on Saturday. In turn, Solidarity warned that "sanctions" against workers, specifically firings for Saturday absenteeism, could lead to strikes...