Word: bus
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Shanker predicts a change in public strike laws around the nation. Rather than a blanket prohibition of strikes in the public section, the criterion should be the degree of emergency created by the strike. A strike by public bus drivers is not as serious, Shanker suggested, as a strike by employees of Con Edison...
...doubt about his role. In a surreptitious hospital-room recording describing the events that put him in the basement of the Dallas Police and Courts Building on the morning of Nov. 24, 1963, Ruby recalled: "The ironic part of this is I had made an illegal turn behind a bus to the parking lot. Had I gone the way I was supposed to go-straight down Main Street-I would've never met this fate, because the difference in meeting this fate was 30 seconds one way or the other...
...white liberal was riding on a bus when he spied a bug crawling up the collar of a Negro passenger. Solicitously he reached over and plucked the bug away. Instantly the Negro turned on him indignantly. "Put it back, man," he snapped. "You white folks don't want us to have anything...
...made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like an inverted T. Berlin's aerotrain resembles a sleek silver bus, rides less than an inch above the rail on a cushion of air produced by two 50-h.p. Renault Gordini engines, propels and brakes itself with a 260-h.p. jet-booster aircraft engine rear-mounted on its roof...
Miss O'Brien, who is as curvy as the double bass she plays, does not mind. On tour, the men make up for it by falling all over themselves to carry her bags, and save her a seat on the bus. More than that, she is justifiably proud of breaking the sex barrier at the Philharmonic, which, apart from female harpists, has never in its 125-year history hired a woman musician fulltime. As it is, Orin struggled through ten years and several auditions before she finally won the job this year over 33 men bass players...