Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Sunday afternoon a creaky, chrome-plated, bus stood shaking in front of the Sheraton-Plaza. Inside were 20 eager tourists, a fat, jolly, swarthy tourguide who wore wrap around sun-glasses, and an ernest, young busdriver who sat hunched possessively over his steering wheel. Tour No. 2 of the Gray Lines Sightseeing Bus Company entitled "Contemporary Education & Cultural Boston & Cambridge" was about to begin...
...Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Arabs charge that the Israelis are allowing them to leave for political rather than humane motives, since every departing Arab is one potential terrorist fewer to deal with and one mouth fewer to feed. But the rate of the Arab exodus by bus and hired taxi has dropped off lately as word has spread that few jobs are available in Jordan...
Abernathy telephoned King, and together the two ministers marshaled a 382-day boycott that eventually caused the bus company to relent. It was about this time that Abernathy first tasted violence. At 2:10 on a January morning in 1957, the front of his house was dynamited, fortunately injuring no one inside...
...public safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
Talley's death seemed the last straw. On orders from their union, bus drivers refused to carry change money after dark without armed guards; the result was a nighttime bus stoppage. In newspaper ads, 200 merchants noted "a growing smog of fear" over the city. Tourism, which brought 16.8 million visitors last year, is off some...