Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson Key again offers its Wellesley bus service on each home-football-game Saturday. A bus leaves from in front of Lowell House at 11 a.m. and returns at approximately 12:30 p.m. The night bus departs from the same place at midnight. Both jaunts for Harvard man and late cost $3; one round trip...
...before he began to run, is now a trim 6 ft. 3 in., 205 lbs. He owns four airplanes, one of them a jet, and each day he takes off from his personal airport at Winrock bound for a campaign destination. When he arrives, a just-plain-folks secondhand bus, driven there the night before, is waiting to carry him over back roads to tiny hamlets and home towns. The Rockefeller bus is plastered with "Win with Win" signs; on the placard in front, the words are lettered backward so they can be read in a motorist's rear...
...When the bus stops in a town square, Rockefeller, wearing western boots and a cowman's hat, lopes about shaking every hand in sight, even darts into stores to greet people who didn't come out on the street to meet him. As he performs, a team of aides carrying Polaroid cameras snaps as many as 500 pictures a day. Ten seconds after a handshake, a pleased voter gets a keepsake picture of himself with Rockefeller...
...Plan. Rockefeller's speeches are short and always extemporaneous. He consistently cracks Faubus for low teachers' salaries and for the "deplorable condition" of state roads. Speaking at a new plant-dedication ceremony in Forrest City, Ark., last summer, Rockefeller fractured Faubus by complaining that his campaign bus had been plagued by constant breakdowns-caused mostly by jouncing over so many miles of "Faubus Freeways." Rockefeller also attacks the Governor as the boss of a massive political machine. "My opponent is also visiting all the counties," cries Winthrop, "but he heads for the courthouse to a secret meeting where...
...other high-tax suburb on the flanks of a hundred other U.S. cities. But even to some of the inhabitants, Darien seemed wilder than most. In the weekly Darien Review, Episcopal Rector William C. Bartlett described the town as a place "where ninth-graders drink vodka on the school bus." Early this year an entrepreneur opened a teen-age nightclub that had dancing but only soft drinks. It failed. "The kids around here just won't go to a place where they can't drink," complained the owner. Where do they go? Either to private parties or across...