Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeds of the Viet Cong go largely unnoted in the public debate. And it is this moral double bookkeeping which makes us get sometimes very weary of our critics." As if to punctuate the President's point, a Viet Cong plastic bomb erupted at a Saigon bus stop the same day, killing an old woman and wounding a young girl...
...legs at the knees. The Viet Cong raided her village, and when they discovered that all the men had fled, flung grenades into houses where the women and chil dren were hiding. At another hospital, Rusk witnessed the arrival of 17 civilians who had been badly mauled when their bus ran over a Viet Cong land mine-one of the principal causes of war injuries. A six-year-old child died before Rusk's eyes...
...Western notion of individualism, which insists on its own rights but respects the rights of others, is hard for the Chinese to understand. Author Lin Yu-tang describes a passenger in a crowded bus triumphantly settling into the only empty seat-the driver's-and refusing to give it up, even though it obviously means that the bus will go nowhere...
Lynn meanwhile had another feast on the crumbs from Vanessa's table. Just before Blow-Up came along, Vanessa had backed out of a commitment to play Georgy Girl. (It was just as well, since the script says that Georgy "looks like the back of a bus.") Offered the part, Lynn grabbed it and put on 18 Ibs. of omnibustle. The Redgrave rampage...
Hoffa apparently had some doubt too. Less than an hour before the imprisonment order came through, he announced in Baltimore that Teamster General Vice President Frank Fitzsimmons, 58, would take over the 1,800,000-man union in the event of his own "absence." A onetime bus driver and dockworker, the portly Fitzsimmons has an avuncular appearance that belies his 31-year career as a Teamster organizer, mostly with Hoffa's tough home local, No. 299, in Detroit...