Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Footsie." The G.O.P.'s fresh face belongs to Dempsey's good friend and neighbor E. (for Edmund) Clayton Gengras, 57, chairman of the Security-Connecticut Group and of the Connecticut Co., which runs urban bus lines. A high school dropout, Gengras is a self-made millionaire and self-starting candidate whose first bid for public office took both rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats by surprise. Also surprising was the unanimity mustered at the party convention, which nominated him by acclamation. Though Nutmeg State Republicans have been notorious for factional feuding in recent years, State Republican Chairman...
...outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade them to defect. Officials turned up with telephones, at the other end of which were relatives who had already fled Cuba. A Puerto Rican bus driver, hauling Castro's swimming team, stopped outside a house hastily labeled "Refuge," opened the doors and asked hopefully, "Anyone staying here?" There were even two major-league baseball scouts waving contracts at Cuban pitchers...
...Pablo Vega Romero, an 18-year-old wrestler, who by week's end was the only Cuban athlete to defect to the West. Juan Pablo had to manage his escape all by himself. Wearing a borrowed Puerto Rican sweater, he sneaked out of the Cuban compound, caught a bus to the nearest Catholic church. There he found a Colombian priest, who took him to a Puerto Rican assemblyman, who passed him on to a U.S. Immigration officer, who after a check with Washington, granted him asylum...
...unmarried woman of 30 met a stranger on a bus, invited him home for a meal. Whereupon he broke her arm and raped her. After granting $3,337 compensation, the board slashed it to $2,668 on the ground that the victim was 20% responsible. >A man of 29 was shot by the husband of the woman with whom he was living. The husband went to prison, and the wounded lover got $1,512. >A boy of eight was blinded with a stick by another boy of eight, who could not be charged because ten is the age of criminal...
...criminal defendants were released on personal recognizance. Although they were charged with everything from bank robbery to narcotics offenses, only 1% of that group failed to show up in court. What makes those figures all the more spectacular is that the Detroit court is a mere ten-minute, 25? bus ride away from the tempting possibility of sanctuary across the Canadian border...