1.   Booking agents at the Royal Cruise Lines reservation center were continuing to book passage on several company ships through early May.

2.   After her hideout in Cairo is bombed, Jacinda flees to Port Said and books passage on the first departing merchant ship.

3.   Douglass says, with her first grandchild expected in May, such book passages stir deeper emotions.

4.   Some other families, though, were unable to book passage on ships leaving here.