Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merry Pranksters brought their message, or just themselves to the whole country by means of a magical mystery tour, a cross-country trip in a pyschedelic magic bus with loudspeakers on top, a sleeping bag for screwing, acid in the portable fridge, and lots of merry pranks along the way: "... in Barry Goldwater's home town ... they put a streamer on the bus reading 'A VOTE FOR BARRY IS A VOTE FOR FUN.' And they put American flags up on the bus and Casady drove the bus backwards down the main drag of Phoenix ... The citizens were suitably startled, outraged...
...biggest adjustment, though, will be on the level of the individual. Now when the doctor practices his medicine, he does it for Israel. The bus driver drives his bus and the street vendor sells his oranges, for Israel. Israeli life requires that the first commitment be to the state. Yet one must ask what type of nation Israelis will produce when they begin to act for themselves...
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the strike of the Memphis garbage-workers, he stood up in the face of institutionalized immorality, cried out to the world and devoted himself unstintingly to the eradication of the evil that...
...research. He also shares Murphy's conviction that the university should be the intellectual servant of its community. This fall, he has instigated a university-financed project that will sponsor ghetto seminars in police-community relations, form block organizations and present both news and songs from a mobile bus...
...like driving an iceberg." Then, at Victorville, Calif., the car's engine idled at twice its normal r.p.m.s, blew up on its block, and had to be towed 130 miles to the Pasadena finish line. It got there a full 37 hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech team had made the trip with fewer penalties. As a result, the adjusted finishing time was 210 hours and 3 minutes for Cal tech, 210 hours and 30 minutes for M.I.T. An ordinary auto spouting its noxious fumes, of course, would have made the trip...