Word: bus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...services. American Express won a hand by signing Manhattan's Toots Shor restaurant, long a credit-card holdout. Diners' bounced right back by announcing a contract with the Stork Club, another holdout. American Express then scored by adding a galaxy of nonrestaurant services: Western Union, Greyhound Bus, Avis and Hertz car rentals, Kinney Parking Systems, Kelly Girls for temporary office help. Amexco spread the word that in any of its 303 international offices, a cardholder could charge a ticket or tour to any spot in the world. In return, Diners' Club, which already boasts such nonrestaurant services...
...shouting "Fascism Shall Not Pass," clashed with club-wielding police. Red-bereted ex-paratroopers, spoiling for a fight with the Reds who had helped spoil the Gaullist show, joined in. Angered by the jeers of leftist mobs, one group of Republican Guards in ceremonial tunics, climbed out of their bus and charged-boots clattering, sabers waving, horsetail plumes flying in the breeze...
Investor (real estate, oil) Bus Mosbacher is only 36, but he has matched tacks and tactics with Shields for a decade-mostly in the hard-sailing International class and dinghies-on the waters of Long Island Sound. A sailor since childhood, Mosbacher is famed for his starts and his skill with light...
...Sceptre. Last week, as the final trials of the four 12-meter yachts began in open ocean ten miles off Newport, R.I., the two took over. Cornelius ("Corny") Shields was at the wheel of the spanking-new Columbia for the all-important start and the windward legs, and Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr. was principal skipper of the 19-year...
...week's end troops still ringed the inviolable campuses. Inside, students danced round blazing buses as white-clad medical students set up first-aid stations, home-economics coeds perspired prettily over soup kettles, and chemistry aspirants continued to make Molotov cocktails. The bus drivers? They got no raises, and precious little work...