Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jeering & Footsore. The city's idea was to turn the business over to the municipal bus system, which, as it turned out, had far too few vehicles to handle the trade. The ban stranded thousands of commuters who had no other way to get to work. Lagos' streets were immediately jammed with baby-toting mammies lugging pails of smoked fish, fu-fu rolls and other pungently perishable delicacies to market in the 100° heat. The pedestrians were the only things moving. Angry maulers used their mammy wagons to blockade all entrances to the city, slashed the tires...
...West Germany's press and television are strong, free, and outspokenly critical. Hardly anyone advocates extremist solutions for anything. The army bears little resemblance to its goose-stepping ancestor. It is a citizen force, and most of its members are self-conscious in what are often derided as bus-conductor uniforms; indeed, most German bus conductors look more like soldiers than the soldiers...
...raped two women. A Catholic priest and four civilians were kidnaped from a church, and all civilians were forced to leave the area. In Thua Thien province, the Viet Cong stopped some buses, abducted a nurse and two girls. In Pleiku province they fired on a bus, killed the driver and wounded ten passengers...
...bus rolled through Brussels a faculty member barraged the students with questions. "Who recently introduced the lower bank rate in France?" A student's correct answer: "Valéry Giscard d'Estaing." "Why?" "To spur investment." At the International School of Brussels, U.S. executives of Ford, I.T.T., Monsanto and Upjohn got a grilling from the students: "Why are Germany's gold reserves going down when its economy is booming?" "What marketing research have you done in Europe on oral contraceptives?" In Paris, the Americans met Gaullist students to discuss the mysteries of the world's teen...
...later, the bus swung briefly onto old U.S. 1 for a glimpse of roadside blight-junkyards, billboards and used-car lots. Whitton commended owners of automobile junkyards, which he called "disassembling yards," who have tried to screen the rusting hulks from passing motorists; the Department of Commerce counts 17,760 auto graveyards and scrap heaps lining the country's main roads...