Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adds ruefully, "there was no TV. We got no radio coverage and no headlines at all." More discouraging than media coverage was the response of other blacks. "They did not have any interest in direct action, civil disobedience, and certainly not nonviolence. Not until 1956, with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, did nonviolence capture the imagination of the press and the world, thanks especially to Dr. King's charismatic leadership...
...bookish philosophy major at Charles University. Entering Wenceslas Square in the bustle of mid-afternoon traffic, Palach carefully removed his overcoat, poured a small can of gasoline over himself and struck a match. Instantly, to the horror of several dozen passersby, he turned into a human torch. Despite a bus dispatcher's frantic effort to smother the flames with his overcoat, Palach's body was ravaged. He died three days later...
...flee behind the Iron Curtain after six years of spying for the Soviet Union. Sobell vigorously denied the accusation, but his trial for espionage resulted in a 30-year jail sentence. Morton Sobell was soon forgotten by most Americans. Last week, a revenant from oblivion, he stepped off a bus in Manhattan, free on parole after serving 17 years and nine months in federal prisons. He was still proclaiming his innocence...
...also shaping up as an eminently depressing place to live. Co-Op City is dense (200 people per acre). It is relentlessly ugly: its buildings are overbearing bullies of concrete and brick. Its layout is dreary and unimaginative. Right now, residents have to bus their kids to nearby schools and shop in a make-do supermarket on the bottom floor of a garage. Not a spadeful of dirt has yet been turned on a new subway line that will connect the project directly with New York City, of which it is supposed to be a vital part. Even worse, except...
...outposts, some of Mediterranee's more recent villages are almost luxurious, featuring such amenities as air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting and private baths. And prices are not always the rock-bottom bargains they once were. U.S. members can spend a week at Bear Valley for $182, including bus transportation from San Francisco, meals, four hours of ski instruction daily and chairlift tickets...