Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youngest of the three, Richard Schoenfeld, turned himself in to authorities in Oakland. But the other two men were still missing. Also missing was a clear motive for the bizarre crime that prompted the police sweep-the kidnaping two weeks ago of 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver from the sunbaked town of Chowchilla...
...California's history. The first came when a National Audubon Society group, on an outing in the Santa Cruz mountains some 40 miles from the Livermore quarry, stumbled upon notebooks, clothing and shoes belonging to the Chowchilla students, and an ID card owned by the children's bus driver...
...kidnapers took care to stock the big truck with water, blankets and a small chemical toilet, and to install two air vents before it was buried. They apparently spent a good deal of time in Chowchilla studying the movements of the schoolchildren; when they finally ambushed the school bus, they did so at a place and a time when they knew nobody would be around...
...actor's name is John Travolta. He is 22, and seems to be the successor to David Cassidy and Donnie and Marie Osmond in the hearts of the eleven-to 15-year-old crowd. Taking Don Murray's old role in Bus Stop is just a passing thing for him. Travolta is best known as Vinnie Barbarino, the tough, macho "Sweathog" in ABC's hit series Welcome Back, Kotter. The show is an updated version of Happy Days, a genial exercise in instant nostalgia, and Vinnie Barbarino is barely distinguishable from Arthur Fonzarelli, a.k.a. the Fonz...
Public Maulings. The days of free-and-easy anonymity are over for Travolta. On his Bus Stop tour he lives like a recluse in his dressing room. The last time he tried to take a date to a disco, the place was overrun. "I don't think any girl could take my schedule now," he says, quite accurately, and claims to have no steady girl friend. He was mobbed by 5,000 fans at a Cleveland record store recently. At the world's largest indoor shopping mall at Schaumburg, Ill., outside Chicago, an estimated 30,000 engulfed...