Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modest and reasonable. It asked the Committee to make clear how and when future school construction will correct present imbalance. It called for direct financial support to private groups like Operation Exodus, which is now busing a few hundred children out of Roxbury. It sought consideration of proposals to bus a few hundred more Negroes to suburban schools...
...than 1,400 of whom were killed or kidnaped last year alone. Nor are officials the only targets. Two weeks ago in Phu Yen province, where Korean and Vietnamese forces are guarding peasants bringing in the rice harvest, two mine explosions killed 54 farm workers riding in a civilian bus. And in Saigon last week, two claymore mines set off near the back gate of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces Headquarters failed in their mission to kill a major military leader, but did kill five soldiers and seven civilian passersby, and wounded more than 60 others...
...Diario firmly believes it has a duty to promote the welfare of Puerto Ricans, and it goes about the job unceasingly. The paper's 50-man, largely Puerto Rican editorial staff spends half its time listening to readers' complaints of mistreatment. A converted city bus owned by the paper roams Puerto Rican neighborhoods soliciting other tales of trouble. Puerto Ricans who are accused of a crime often surrender to the paper simply because they are afraid of going to the police. "Saying you're from El Diario is like flashing a badge," says Editor Sergio Santelices...
Losing Their Heads. Many of the sport's new "diesel set" (those who ar rive by bus) are untutored novices whom experienced skiers drive for hours to avoid. The newcomers elbow their way into lift lines, ignore ski-patrol warnings,, snowplow into middle-aged ladies. If their etiquette is lamentable on the slopes, their ethics at the bottom are worse. "Anything gets stolen around here that's not tied down," says Alex Gushing, developer of Squaw Valley...
...meet him on a beach 50 miles south of Bombay was not there, and the plane's nose wheel collapsed on landing, bending the propellers in the sand. Undismayed, Walcott coolly ordered the local police to guard the plane while he and the co-pilot caught a bus to Bombay, taking along two suitcases full of watches. In Bombay, Walcott apparently quietly disposed of the watches and picked up the second pilot. Then all three men bluffed their way into the line of debarking passengers at Bombay's International Airport. In that way, they were able...