Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California authorities quickly rejected several other suggested motives for the bus hijacking. They found it inconceivable that Ed Ray, a kindly, well-liked man who had been driving buses in Chowchilla for 26 years and had hauled many of the parents of the missing children, could be involved. Police also discarded the notion that a lone psychopath could control 27 captives. There was nothing to indicate that somebody bearing a grudge was responsible. Finally, police concluded that no ransom demand was likely to be received. In Chowchilla, a town of 4,550 in the midst of citrus orchards, dairy farms...
Around 7:30 the following evening, 24 hours after the empty bus had been found, a startled watchman at a gravel quarry near Livermore, 100 miles northwest of Chowchilla, saw a bedraggled group-all in their underwear-approaching him. The kidnaping victims had been found, and all were well...
...next morning, a red, white and blue Greyhound bus escorted by two highway patrol cars wheeled into Chowchilla with the 26 weary pupils and their driver. A couple of hundred joyous parents, friends and reporters greeted them with cheers, whistles and applause. Meanwhile, the police issued bulletins for three white males traveling in two vans...
...receive no special treatment, and she isn't getting any. She lives in a three-bedroom apartment with six other athletes, including her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, an alternate member of the team; she stands on line for meals in the cafeteria; she rides in the bumpy shuttle bus from the village to the stables two miles away. All security is so tight at the Games that Anne's presence has required no additional measures. Says one equestrian official: "You can hardly breathe for the armed guards. Anne could invite Queen Elizabeth to stay overnight and we wouldn...
...matinee audience for Bus Stop at the Lakewood, Me., summer theater consisted mostly of thick-thighed teenagers with braces on their teeth. For the first 20 minutes of the play they sat clutching each other, ecstatic with anticipation. Then the star of the show loped onstage, wearing skintight jeans and a white sombrero. "My name is Bo Decker and I'm 21 years old," he cried. "Everywhere I go I got all the women." The audience squealed...