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Director T.J. Mitchell has done an excellent job in staging this production, elegantly integrating the stairways and contours of the Leverett space. However, a few touches do not work as well as they ought. People clamber in and out of the crates used in the stowaway scenes on the boat to England in such an easy manner that it is all too obvious they have a fake side facing the stage entrances. And the theatrical use of fake blood in the "deaths" toward the end of the play appears contrived...
...Panama, where the Canal Commission maintains 24-hour bee-control teams to stop stowaway killer bees, quarantine posts are being established on roads leading out of the southern Mexico defense area to prevent swarms from hitchhiking. Whole colonies have made their way to California on board freighters, but all the known stowaways have been destroyed...
...field and sets rules for the listing game. One such rule is that birds reaching North America through human assistance cannot be counted, touching off speculation on whether the Western Reef heron that drew hundreds of birders to Nantucket, Mass., in 1983 actually came over from Africa as a stowaway on a boat. The ABA checklist committee voted to accept the bird...
...missed the show. In less time than it takes to stowaway on a herring boat, the mini-summit had come and gone. I was depressed. "Rutger," I said, "tell me. How could it end so quickly...
...more frustration and anger in day-to-day business than perhaps any others. Company policy aggravates the public which sometimes needs a little understanding, and it stifles creative employees who might want to use some initiative and take some responsibility. Now it could be that Helen Hayes as the stowaway in Airport gave old ladies such a bad name that they are immediately suspect upon entering the terminal, but it seems so much more likely that the woman had actually dropped her ticket. If the ticket agents or even the supervisors were given a little more room to exercise their...