Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe freshman was awarded almost $100,000 in damages yesterday for injuries received when she was struck by a Metropolitan Transit Authority bus...
...prosecution's case rested partially on a claim substantiated by witnesses that the bus traveling approximate in 25 m.p.h. what it hit Miss Mercier. The driver estimated his speed at four to five m.p.h. MTA busses have no speedometers. No attempt was made, however, to claim punitive damages...
...defense suggested, but did not prove, that Miss Mercier might have been negligent herself. According to Miss Mercier, they also suggested that she might have been struck by something other than the bus "one of the parked cars, for instance...
...women and children pouring over by helicopter, hydrofoil, excursion steamer, automobile, bus, train and subway to push through the new fair's 89 turnstiles can see at once that, first and foremost, they are expected to enjoy themselves. This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head...
...Piece. Hollywood lies light-years distant from Indiana's papaw country, but Reporter Ross's collection successfully encompasses both. In The Yellow Bus, she recounts a New York visit of the Bean Blossom Township High School's 1960 senior class - a narrative so coldly and devastatingly honest that, even today, at least one Bean Blossom faculty member cannot think about it without getting mad. In Picture, she exhaustively tracks the course of John Huston's film, The Red Badge of Courage, from conception to box office - where it flopped. After that dissection, doors slammed shut...