Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beverly Hills, it is a city that seeks ceaselessly after youth. Sports cars and motorcycles are everywhere-but so, too, are the symptoms of another Los Angeles fixation: death. In the city that made interment a high art, and to which oldsters gravitate to spend their final years, bus-stop benches double as advertisements for funeral homes and cemeteries...
...headquarters rivaling Chicago and New York. When the cause has moved him, he has also gone beyond his expressly constituted authority with noteworthy results. At Yorty's prodding, the city's completely independent Airports Department set up a project aimed at providing a system of flying buses-bus pods toted by helicopter sky cranes-between Los Angeles International Airport and downtown. When an impasse developed between the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the U.S. Interior Department, Yorty personally intervened to negotiate a go-ahead on a nuclear-powered
...motorist in Surrey claimed that Roberts held him up and stole his sandwiches. Fifty armed bobbies combed through Dagenham when a bus conductress reported that a passenger had dropped a pistol (which turned out to be a toy). Singer Alfred Hancock, 46, was arrested five times in one day because of his vague resemblance to Roberts. "Why do I have to look like him?" complained Hancock. "Why can't I look like Mario Lanza?" At Sadler's Wells Theater, Tenor Emile Belcourt was singing the title role of Offenbach's Bluebeard when police broke in with growling...
...find half a dozen with high chairs." Almost to a man, visitors are irked by the difficulty in buying that tourists' essential, postage stamps. Where they find them in commercial machines, it strikes them as almost immoral that a quarter will purchase only four 50 stamps. The Greyhound bus, with its unlimited-travel $99 fare, is much admired. "People talk to you in the bus, and they tell you about their lives," says Parisienne Janine Kraus. "It's like a Russian novel...
...entire expansion program must will be approved by the MBTA's Advise Board -- representatives from all the communities that are served by the bus and rail facilities of the MBTA...