Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of debate on the omni bus civil rights bill, Louisiana's Democratic Representative Edward Hebert gazed forlornly at the empty places about him, got up, and wondered aloud where his Southern colleagues were at such an important time...
...Marina's suggestion, Oswald took a bus for New Orleans that month to look for a job. Marina and her baby went to live with Ruth Paine. Marina was two months pregnant. "She stayed then about two weeks," says Ruth. "During the day, we would do the normal things, washing diapers, folding clothes, talking. She was interested in how Americans cook. She was particularly interested in all the spices and condiments. I taught her how to use seasoning, salt and soy sauce and so forth. She taught me to use dill weed in making a good creamed chicken dish...
Seconds later, three shots were fired -and President Kennedy was dead or dying. Lee Oswald slipped out a rear entrance of the building, walked six blocks, returned to Elm and boarded a bus. The bus bogged down in traffic. Oswald got off, walked a few blocks, got into a cab, ordered the driver to drop him on the 500 block of North Beckley-five blocks beyond his room. He paid the 950 fare, gave the driver a nickel tip, hurried to his room, ran out again with a windbreaker...
What earned Merritt his beating in Notasulga might in another locale have come under the heading of journalistic enterprise. He simply slipped aboard the school bus bearing the first Negro students to try to enter Macon County High School. He figured he could photograph the story from the youngsters' point of view. But law authorities had already gathered in force to prevent the token integration, and some of them had been tipped that a photographer was on the bus...
However, there had been an ardent 50-strong "three-times-a-day core" of faithful commuters who were establishing a budding Thou relationship with the Radcliffe bus, he noted. The line would have needed about twice as many faithful devotees, though, in order to cover the day-to-day managerial and operative costs of the service...