Word: bus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hove, Too. In Hove, England, a new bus, built for a 10,000-mile overland service between London and Bombay, left the factory, broke down ten miles north of town...
...sharp decline in patronage of the Harvard-Wellesley Bus Service has led to serious consideration of the possibility of discontinuing the service, Allan Lazaroff '59, treasurer of the Crimson Key Society, said Thursday...
Although the Crimson Key has barely broken even on the first two trips this year, a meager turnout for the Penn weekend threatens to put the entire operation in the red for the whole season. As the deadline for reserving a seat on the bus approached this week, only five men had bought tickets...
Last fall the bus service failed to pay its way by a considerable margin. Lazaroff observed, "We strongly hesitated before resuming the service this year, and we have not yet decided about next year." The Society has provided convenient transportation to Wellesley for five years, Lazaroff stated, "but if interest continues to slip, the financial risk may become too great to take...
...Italian immigrant to Argentina, sometime bus mechanic, Fangio was 28 before he attracted international attention by finishing fifth in the Gran Premio Extraordinario Argentino. Not until he was 38 did a manufacturer (Alfa Romeo) sign him up to race full time. In his second year under contract (1951), the phlegmatic Fangio won the world driving championship. He won it again four times in the next six years, driving for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner...