Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agency from a tiny concern with one part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi Sombatsiri, owner and operator of Bangkok's biggest bus company, the White Bus Line. Trim, thirtyish Mrs. Lursakdi, a former Thai golf champion, inherited the company from her father, built it into one of the country's most progressive businesses. It provides workers with housing, healthy annual bonuses and profit sharing, has helped the emancipation of Thai women...
Johnson brilliantly handled his role in the reconstruction under Chief of Staff Earle ("Bus") Wheeler, who was named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1964. That July, reaching down past 43 three-and four-star generals with greater seniority, Defense Secretary McNamara chose Johnson as Army Chief of Staff. Johnson was awarded his fourth star...
Freedom House. Castro is treating outgoing refugees with disdain. Many were notified of their departure at 1 or 2 a.m., given only an hour to round up a few belongings while militiamen took inventory of their homes, then were bundled into a bus for the trip to Varadero. They were allowed 44 Ibs. of luggage; everything else belonged to the state. "I didn't bring anything with me," said one woman. "I was afraid they wouldn't allow me on the plane...
Tickets for the game can be purchased for $2 at 60 Boylston St., or at the Arena. To reach the Arena, take a Dudley bus from Harvard Square...
Place of Slaughter. There were other demonstrations last week that hardly befitted a newly independent nation. At the industrial capital of Bulawayo (which means "Place of Slaughter" in the Sindebele language), a policeman shot and killed an African member of a mob stoning a bus. Soon the entire African community, usually docile, was up in arms. Half the city's labor force walked out in protest. Factories, shops and restaurants closed. Street sweepers laid down their brooms. At Bulawayo's fashionable Hotel Victoria, guests were forced to make their own beds. Tear gas and threats to fire...