Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop. Loudspeakers shatter the soft night air, calling the faithful to a "solidarity with North Viet Nam" rally, while just a block away at Monseigneur Restaurant (steak: $15), harassed waiters try to evoke the old days by wrapping label-less bottles of beer in napkins. Transportation is largely by bus. Gasoline rationing has virtually emptied the streets of cars, except those rusting at curbside, idle and unusable...
...Your cover story brings to mind an incident I recently encountered on a bus. A girl no older than four or five, singing away very spiritedly: "... a taste you can really feel; new Ultra Brite gives your mouth sex appeal...
...August; last summer 200,000 sightseers overran its quaint cobblestone streets and lolled on its beaches. Salty natives sneer that one-day visitors "come with a five-dollar bill and a dirty shirt and change neither." Nevertheless, local businessmen gladly pocket the $20 million a year spent annually on bus trips, postcards and clam chowder. In fact, the tourist trade is growing so rapidly that many "off-islanders," the regular summer residents, are concerned lest their historic hideaway lose its charm...
...basic concept was that a person cannot be taught to live in society if he is removed from normal social situations. So Keve devised a program for a small group of young offenders who stay at home and in school on weekdays, and on Friday afternoons are delivered by bus to a near by country cabin, where they must spend the weekend together. There they play ball and hike under careful supervision by a staff more interested in rehabilitation than in punishment. Every night there are group discussions of problems at school or at home. Each year the high point...
...didn't expect it to be this hot in Cambridge. And last weekend when you were coming back here, the subway broke down, and the trains only made it to Kendall, where you have never, ever been before, and you had to get on a bus there to ride into Harvard Square, and it was hot all over...