Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson Key Society will sponsor a date bus to and from Wellesley for all home football games. The bus will depart from Lowell House at 11 a.m. each Saturday and return to Wellesley at midnight. Tickets for the round trip with date cost $3, or $1.75 for one way. They are available weekdays, 2-5 p.m., at 52 Dunster St., Room...
...creaking back-country bus filled with women and children suddenly explodes; a small town echoes to the shrieks of the dying as mortar shells are casually lobbed into its midst; a plastique charge shreds a Saigon café. Common enough events in South Viet Nam, they are part of the Viet Cong's conscious policy of killing and maiming civilians. Last year alone, some 11,000 innocent civilians were killed or kidnaped by the Viet Cong in their calculated campaign of terrorism...
Farmer also urged civil rights groups to work for "educational upgrading in the Negro community." Endorsing student busing he said, "In rural areas we bus students all over counties to central schools for the sake of quality education. We must do it in cities too for the benefit of both races. Both white and Negro children in segregated schools are not being prepared to cope with our small world...
...blue-and-white bus screeched to a stop outside Houston's Astrodome, with its cargo of the hottest - and angriest - team in sport. "C'mon, dammit!" yelled Manager Herman Franks. "Go get 'em! Sic 'em! Sic 'em!" The San Francisco Giants leaped to their feet and dashed for the door. " Kill!" screamed Outfielder Len Gabrielson "Kill! Kill! Kill!" It sounded pretty funny for a base ball team. But the Houston Astros learned to believe it. The Giants scored a run in the fourth inning, another in the fifth - and with the score tied...
Miss Macintosh, who may have been a man and who was almost certainly a suicide. All this is recalled on a nightmarish bus trip, which the middle-aged Vera takes, or does not take, in search of the dead Miss Macintosh...