Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom Bus. That might have been the end of the story for the clumsy would-be escapees from Walter Ulbricht's barbed-wire paradise. But late last year, Trochim and Zippel were summarily ordered from their cells, carted to a crossing point on the West German border, and turned loose to find jobs in prosperous, worker-hungry West Germany...
...vary with the denomination but have little to do with the state of the United Ministry. "I think the religious doubts start in high school, long before students get here," speculates the Rev. Rene O. Bideaux of the Methodist Church, "They have them when they get off the bus." The Rev. Ernst E. Klein of the Baptist Church claims that "many students will not give us a chance because they are running from the Baptist Church in Pumpkin Corners. Iowa...
...route to Bengazi, an oil-company air bus comes down in a sandstorm with 14 men aboard. Two are dead on impact. More will die during the bitter struggle for survival that celebrates, once again, the indomitability of the human spirit. But Phoenix regards its heroes with refreshing cynicism. In his best role of recent years, James Stewart plays the stubborn, not-very-bright bush pilot, a "back number" who demonstrates leadership by guarding the water rations. "Little men with slide rules and computers are going to inherit the earth," he grumbles. His adversary is a German, Hardy Kruger...
...bus fumes had never smelled so good, nor had the rumble of the subways sounded so musical. The great New York City transit strike was over. Now came the financial reckoning. For the bankrupt New York City Transit Authority, the $52 million settlement-$16 million more than the 1963 package-was bad enough, but it was almost microscopic compared with the transit union's original demands of $680 million. The strikers received a 15% wage increase spread over two years and substantially improved fringe benefits, failed to get a requested 32-hour week and six weeks' vacation after...
Both Lindsay and the Transit Authority agreed that New York's subway and bus workers needed a raise to bring them more nearly into line with city workers of equivalent talent and status, but nothing on the order of what Mike Quill asked for. Top wage for T.W.U. members working for the Transit Authority is $3.57 an hour, for work that includes everything from driving the underground trains (a job that requires 280 hours of schooling) to repairing buses. Even though New York's T.W.U. men lead their union in nationwide pay, they lag behind many municipal workers...