Word: bus
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...unless he has memorized someone else's script, Reagan and his staff emphasize that he writes all his own speeches. Given the swollen staffs of specialists that surround most campaigners nowadays, the endeavor seems anachronistic. Yet, true enough, Reagan sits day after day on his campaign plane or bus hunched over 3-in. by 5-in. index cards, laboriously printing capital letters with a nylon-tip pen-"my speech for the next town." He has a kind of mental Erector set of phrases, figures and gags that he has used hundreds of times to fit any occasion...
Barely had the Harvard soccer team stepped off the bus at Williamstown yesterday than it was greeted by a rough Williams squad and the referee's whistle beginning a game which, predictably ended in a 3-1 win for the home team...
Consider also that Harvard will be playing right on top of a three-hour bus ride; that fullback Karl Lunkenheimer is till out of action and such key performers as Joe Gould, Dudley Blodget, and Bill Schaefer are physically below par; that Williams boasts an undefeated team which last week ended Middlebury's string of 17 straight regular season wins, and you see why Harvard is clearly the underdog...
...city services in ghetto areas. The Mayor's creative, publicity-minded Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving hired some teen-age leaders from Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem to advise him on the design and placement of parks in their neighborhoods; he imported swimming pools into ghetto parks, and he provided free bus service for groups to any park in the city. Welfare Commissioner Nathan Ginsberg began a more difficult battle against his 18,000-man bureaucracy. He cut out the infamous "midnight raids" on welfare clients which were used to check whether there was a man illegally living in the house...
Controversy keeps dogging Louis Elwood Wolfson. On grounds that he had milked the company of millions, the Government in 1956 refused to renew his contract to run the Capital Transit bus-and-trolley line in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Co., of which Wolfson is chairman and controlling shareholder, pleaded nolo contendere to charges of bribing a county official in Washington State to help win the big Priest Rapids Dam construction job; the company paid a penalty of $50,000. Also that year, the Securities & Exchange Commission charged that Wolfson tried to drive down the market in American...