Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then be justified to a sluggish populace in terms of the government's general authority to act. This is why Bundy put so much emphasis on the need to educate the public to accept a wider role for the government. The people must be like passengers in a bus who give the driver authority to take them by any route he chooses to a chosen destination...
...seem aware that there is another sort of objection. The radical fear of highly centralized, far-away, bureaucratic authority is inspired mainly by the sight of the government going wild in Vietnam while there are no means to check it. What happens after all when the driver of the bus, for all his good intentions, seems to be heading for the edge of a cliff...
Alan P. Symonds '69, founder of the Bwana Bus and Light Company which does technical work for over half of Harvard's productions, received raucus acclaim for his efforts to obtain the lighting equipment. Robert V. Edgar '69, in his welcome speech, immortalized Symonds with the following lines: "Dunster lay in universal night; God said 'Let Symonds be' and there was light...
...heart of Atlanta is rising Peachtree Center, a $175 million com plex that already includes the 22-story Merchandise Mart, three office build ings, a bus terminal with a 2,000-seat theater, and the new, 800-room Regency Hyatt House. Soon to be added are a 70-story office skyscraper and sev eral high-rise apartment buildings. As a civic enterprise, it would do justice to any U.S. city. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the whole of Peachtree Center has gone up without a penny of public funds...
...front I got to know the waitresses and in the back I knew the Negroes and Puerto Ricans who were the bus boys and who washed the dishes. I was a bus boy and then a waiter and my role was somewhere between the kitchen and, and...I was young enough so as not to be identified with the white group up front and my status on the job was low enough so I could talk to the people in the back and I was smart enough so I got to be friends with the manager. In effect...