Almost every morning since last November, a long-shanked, ruddy-faced man carrying a geologist's pick has stomped his hobnailed boots through the lobby of Mexico City's Hotel.
Extremely long-shanked, "Casey"' prefers to squat Buddha-like on a desk rather than cramp his legs beneath it.
A long-shanked German burgher with thinning blond hair, blue eyes red-rimmed by fatigue, lounged in Montreal's Mount Royal Hotel one evening last week, toying dully with a .