Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to rectify racial imbalance must proceed within the frameworks of the neighborhood school, Eisenstadt continued. He said the school committee will never consent to bus transportation of school children because it is far too expensive and is more "a disruptive than a unifying influence" in the community. "We want evolution, not revolution," he added...
Last Friday at 9:08 a.m. more than 25 worried members of the freshman track team began a four-hour bus ride to New Haven. In a little more than six hours they were to face a powerful team from Princeton and a relatively weak Yale squad in the highlight of the indoor track season...
Landerman was imprisoned after the bus containing members of the group struck a Soviet man who was wheeling a bicycle on the side of the road. Ginsburg explained that Landerman had switched to parking lights in order to pass cars coming in the opposite direction and did not see the bicycle. The Russian died five days later...
...Married. All from Liverpool, all in their early 20s, they come from similar working-class backgrounds. George Harrison's father is a bus driver. Paul McCartney's sells cotton. Ringo Starr, the somewhat corvine drummer, is the son of a house painter. He is called Ringo because he wears as many as six rings on his fingers. His real name is Richard Starkey...
...years on the bench, Johnson has handed down numerous civil rights rulings that angered, or at least annoyed, many white Alabamians. In 1956, as a member of a three-judge panel, he held that segregation on Montgomery buses was unconstitutional-a decision that meant victory for the historic bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. In 1959, Johnson ruled that segregation in public parks in Montgomery violated the Constitution. In 1961, he ordered Macon County voter-registration authorities to permit Negroes to register under precisely the same standards that the county applied to whites...