Bill crossed to the crowd, jammed together and shouting in unison.

A crowd of 29,184 jammed every corner of Jarry Park to watch the first major league baseball game ever played outside the United States.

They slipped through the crowd jammed together in a room oppressed with dark simulated wood, heavy red draperies, and the funereal smell of too many flowers crammed into too small a space.

Eventually the jugglers found their place, well back in the crowd, jammed in between a group of acrobats and one of the orchestras.

At the rally, Lien Chan, the Nationalist Party chairman and losing presidential candidate, told the crowds jammed in the plaza by the presidential palace that he also wanted to give a chance to cast ballots to military personnel who were unable to vote in the election a week ago.

He spoke to a crowd jammed in the back of a pick-up truck that ferried people from Motozintla to a shattered bridge where they had to start walking to reach the outside world.

Delegates stood and cheered for much of the evening, enveloped at the end in the now-obligatory falling balloons as spotlights swept the crowd, jammed shoulder-to-shoulder in the aisles.

With the crowd still jammed in Viaduct Harbor this afternoon, Tom Schnackenberg, the head of Team New Zealand, put his crew on a large inflatable tender and sent it to ride around the marina to wave to the fans.

A clerk at the shop who preferred to remain anonymous said business is as good as it has always been, and from the crowds jammed into the shop soon after sunrise, one is inclined to believe her.