Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rocky, he rambled through picturesque hamlets in a chartered bus, seemed to thrive on an endless round of "Hi there, fellah" sessions on frozen street corners. Happy, five months pregnant, stayed at home, but she managed to make the papers anyway by taking two of her four children-Wendy and Jamie-to hear the Beatles at Carnegie Hall (see SHOW BUSINESS). Rocky dropped in on Albany long enough to pose with a bunch of Boy Scouts, looking for all the world as if he were the one who had just been awarded the Eagle badge. But he devoted most...
Road clearing proceeded rapidly throughout the day because of the normally light Sunday traffic. Railroads, bus lines, and the MTA were able to maintain full service, although frequent delays were reported. Logan Airport, however, was closed until early this morning. All forms of transportation were expected to be operating normally today...
...Crimson, playing after a 300-mile bus trip, was shooting horrendously, but no worse than the Quakers, who hit an appalling 32.8 per cent from the floor. Harvard had 35.7 per cent; Merle McClung led the scoring with 19 points, Williams had nine, and Keith Sedlacek seven...
...When the bus arrived, Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark leaped aboard, armed with a billy and an electric cattle prod. He jammed the billy in Merritt's belly, and he applied the prod to the photographer's neck. With the aid of a deputy, he threw Merritt off the bus, there prodded him some more as he lay on the ground. All this was caught on film by Merritt's unmolested colleague, Cameraman Ed Jones of the Birmingham News. Merritt's equipment-$800 worth-was smashed with such enthusiasm that the six Negro pupils, who stayed...
...shake his hand warmly. "They all expressed dismay," said Merritt, "but it seemed to me there was something insincere about it." He was right. The next day Wallace gave the newspapers his version of the incident: Merritt, the Governor claimed, had resisted the sheriff, would not get off the bus willingly...