Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generally miserable weather continues to inundate Cambridge for the next few months, 'Cliffies will no longer have to arrive in class with their long hair damp and stringy. A general metamorphosis of the Radcliffe image may begin today when the Harvard Student Agencies starts its long-awaited bus service from the Radcliffe quad to Harvard Yard...
...hired a bus and driver from the MTA for a two-week trial period. If the service proves a success, the contract will be extended for the rest of the semester. John W. Harmon '65, manager of the bus agency, said yesterday that an average of 20 riders per trip would be necessary to make the service profitable...
When Chuck Percy, now 44, announced last summer that he would seek the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois, it was a safe bet that he would go after it furiously. He did. Hitting the campaign trail in a bus dubbed the "Chuckwagon," which was chuck-full with Percy, his wife and five kids and an eight-piece band, he rolled into every corner of the state, showed up at no less than 43 county fairs to pump acres of hands, spent 18-hour days plugging his candidacy...
...marketed the foil saved up from tea packages (4? per lb.). As a young man he sold Model Ts, and Fords led him logically to gas pumps. He started Irving Oil by installing a 10,000-gal. gasoline tank in his home town. From there, oil guided him into bus lines, tankers and refining...
Lack of Parts. The deal came as no surprise to the U.S. Government. For months, Cuban trade officials have been shopping with France, West Germany, Spain and Japan for someone to restore the island's disintegrating transportation system. Havana bus parks are filled with rusting U.S. buses for which no parts are available. In 1962, Czechoslovakia sent several hundred Skoda buses, but they soon fell victim to Cuba's tropical weather, its potholed roads and hot-rodding drivers. Of some 1,600 buses operating in Havana in 1961, only about half are still in service, so few that...