Bash script timing out

Perhaps someone could help with this.
This script times out.


#!/bin/bash
cat ~/$1 |  while  read line
do
if [[ "$line" != /*/*/**Closed* && "$line" != "" &&  "$line" != *Auto?
Closed* ]]
 then
{
if [[ "$line" == [1-6][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\,*[a-z,A-Z]* ]]
then
{
read ticket date time <<EOF
$(echo "$line" | nawk 'BEGIN { FS = "," } ; { print  $1,  $6, $7 }')
EOF
echo "$ticket" "$date" "$time" "Opened"
}
elif [[  "$line" == \*\*\**Not?Approved* ]]
then
{
echo "$line" | nawk '{ print "$ticket" " " $4 " " $5 " " "Not-
Approved" }'
}
elif [[  "$line" ==  \*\*\**Picked?Up* || "$line" == \*\*\**Complete*
|| "$line" == \*\*\**Approved*  ]]
then
{
echo "$ticket" "$line" | nawk '{ print $1 " " $5 " " $6 " " $8 }'
}
fi
}
fi
done

---------
Output:  (note yak1 is a very huge file, and I am just trying to get
the facts out.)

$ temp2 yak1
<snip>
32626 2007-09-26 10:57:00 Opened
32626 09-26-2007 12:23 Picked
32626 09-26-2007 12:47 Approved
32626 09-27-2007 01:51 Complete
32627 2007-09-26 11:16:00 Opened
32627 09-26-2007 11:30 Picked
32627 09-26-2007 11:30 Approved
32627 09-26-2007 11:41 Complete
32628 2007-09-26 11:20:00 Opened
32628 09-26-2007 11:29 Picked
32628 09-26-2007 11:29 Approved
32628 09-26-2007 11:46 Complete
<output ends here>
but the file hasn't even been half parsed, if I pipe this to a file,
then it ends sooner (32635).

This seems to have started after I added these items in order to print
from the variables instead of just rendering straight to print.
read ticket date time <<EOF
EOF
echo "$ticket" "$date" "$time" "Opened"

I am sure it has nothing to do with the input file.
but don't know why it hangs.
maybe there is a buffer that fills up because of the variables??

Thanks,
crzzy1