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...officials been so quick to offer as facts the unsubstantiated reports of slashed throats? Admittedly, the immediate scene was hectic; the wounded and the dead hostages were rushed out of the prison to morgues or hospitals with great speed. Said one observer: "A doctor would take a look at each one. If he shook his head, that meant the guy was dead, and they pulled the sheet over his head." In many cases, the bleeding was so profuse that it spattered blood on the wounded men's necks...
Traffic in Vancouver's modestly equipped harbor has doubled, causing major delays for unhappy Canadian shippers. In the sleepy resort town of Ensenada, the scene is even more hectic. Dozens of ships wait in line as long as three weeks for one of three berths, where Mexican laborers sometimes work 36-hour shifts to unload them. Since the strike began, Ensenada crews have loaded or unloaded 64 ships, more than they normally see in a year. Much of the cargo is simply moved to vacant lots until it can be hauled to the U.S. Some 3,700 Volkswagens...
...Carole's way of living. In the early Tin Pan Alley days she and Goffin, whom she has since divorced, led a hectic life, and had to bring their baby to the office. Now she lets very little disturb the life she has arranged for herself in the Laurel Canyon house in Los Angeles where she tends to her nine-and eleven-year-old daughters by her first marriage; she is expecting the first child of her recent marriage to Bass Player Charles Larkey...
...course, that was not to be. After all, there was a war out there to fight and so the Class of '46 never had much time for traditional college paraphernalia. Many arrived in Cambridge during the summer of '42, eager to enter upon a hectic round of three semesters per year as the University escalated its schedule in an effort to process more troops and officers for the front lines overseas...
...walk down towards Dunster House and you will find older couples-most of whom have just turned seventy-sitting in lawn chairs, talking quietly. Here you will find little trace of the hectic cocktails-dinner party syndrome for which the twenty-fifth reunion is famous...