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...SATURDAY, ten hours before the scheduled start of the concert, anyone that arrived was already late. He or she needing a place to fall asleep, had to make do with a sleeping bag wedged in between thousands of white or yellow Port-O-Sans. Others, undaunted at the prospect of stepping on perhaps fifty heads in the last eight hundred yards to the stage, pressed on toward the dull glowing red stage lights. Land was gold and there was a rush but the only claim you could stake was with your body. As they were stepped on, sleepers yelled...
...daily life and security" - the Suez Canal and the Suez Gulf. "Sharm el Sheikh," he added, "is not essential in any way for Egypt. We should stay there. Sinai should be divided by one line or an other. We would control the straits to Elath but not to Port Said. One day Egypt will have a leadership that will be ready to start negotiating...
...made to their private homes. Until the Nixon Administration, those outlays were made by the Defense Department, which does not disclose the amounts or items and, like the GSA until now, may well have never bothered to add up what may have been spent on J.F.K.'s Hyannis Port home, Ike's Gettysburg farm or L.B.J.'s ranch...
Many businessmen would probably be happy to receive more goods than they ordered, so long as they did not have to pay money for them. Not René Debruyne, a grain and pet dealer in Lille. When his shipment arrived at the port of Dunkirk, he refused to accept custody. He had ordered 20,000 turtles, and his Moroccan supplier had generously thrown in an extra 5,000-but the shipment had arrived three months late. "The summer holidays are approaching," Debruyne explained, "and I couldn't dispose of that many turtles...
...there they were, in 365 wicker baskets, and the port veterinarian decreed that if they were to stay in France, they would have to be treated like good French turtles. "They need crawling room, good food and daily sprinkling," he said. The baskets were therefore opened, and the turtles, gray-green creatures ranging from three to eleven inches in length, were given the run-or crawl-of two vast warehouses. The veterinarian looked in on them twice a day, the longshoremen cooled them with sprinklers, and the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce sent them several thousand heads of lettuce. "If they...