Word: bus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a day's liberty in Guantánamo city, eleven uniformed, unarmed U.S. marines and 17 equally inoffensive U.S. sailors climbed aboard their chartered bus one night last week for the 15-mile ride back to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road. Suddenly the headlights picked up a band of armed men. Guerrilla fighters in Cuban Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro's 19-month-old uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, they climbed aboard the bus and ordered the driver...
...bus jounced through canefields for 30 miles, finally stopped alongside a cluster of waiting trucks on the San Antonio sugar plantation at the edge of the mountain foothills. The servicemen, their driver and the bus conductor were loaded aboard the trucks and carted off into the mountains, captives of Fidel Castro's leftist, anti-U.S. brother Raúl, who commands the rebels' Sierra del Cristal column...
...social program does not restrict itself to Cambridge. An excursion will go to the Berkshire Music Festival, Tanglewood, the weekend of July 25-27. The Summer School will arrange bus transportation, lodging, tickets for all events, and swimming privileges for a package fee of $28. Trips will also be planned to concerts at Castle Hill (Ipswich) and the Theatre-on-the-Green (Wellesley). If these appeal to your whim, pay a small visit to Mrs. Mel Clouser in Grays 2 for reservations...
While the system enables students to avoid bus fares and go home for lunch, the disadvantage is in the comparatively small size of most of the high schools. In some the average graduating class is under 100 students, and few are over...
...rain cleared by evening, and the "sport dance" came off, and even the passengers on the furtive early bus claimed that they had fun, as they snugly watched the rain fall outside the window...