Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...General Motors doesn't want people wandering around on their own in there," says a student guard. He points to the fence beyond which innocent-looking woods and fields stretch away through southern Michigan. The only authorized way in proves to be a shuttle bus. Bearing two Chrysler engineers and an average American car owner, pitifully eager for any word of mileage efficiency to come, it cruises along winding roads with nothing except trees in view. Nothing, that is, until the road opens on a vast stretch of black tarmac, 67 acres of it, set in the hills near...
...basis of numbers alone, the presence of less than 2 million nonwhites should not appear threatening to white Britons. After all, many immigrants tend to take jobs that whites no longer want, such as hospital orderlies, garbage collectors and bus conductors. What has magnified white fears so greatly is the immigrants' concentration in London and other manufacturing centers where they speak their own language, buy their own foods, make their own music. In Birmingham, some schools are more than 50% black. Sections of Bradford, a textile town that has many Indian workers, look more like Madras than the Midlands...
Since then, rail and bus services and housing programs have been improved. Now it looks as if Soweto may get electricity too. A consortium of South African banks has begun to issue government-guaranteed loans for a $177 million electrification program. If all goes according to plan, some 22,000 residents should get electricity in three months, although it will take four years to bring power to all of the township's 1 million residents...
...been trying to launch a career with small opera companies in the New York area. "It usually blows someone's mind to hear me in full voice on the street," he says. Once, as he was approaching the climactic A-flat in the prologue to I Pagliacci, a bus stopped between him and his audience. Without missing a beat, he stepped into the bus, blasted out the Aflat, then hopped back onto the sidewalk as the startled driver and passengers rolled away...
Cutting across 125th Street for the de rigueur sight of Harlem, the elderly, enthusiastic bus guide warns them mysteriously not to take pictures from the window. "Is Harlem better or worse than you expected?" he asks. "Better!" Later the visitors disperse to collect impressions of Manhattan on their own. Marc Horber, a kitchenware manufacturers' representative from Nancy, and his son Eric, 17, walk through Chinatown and Little Italy. Father finds the city "a grand has-been," but to his son, "It is very different from France, everyone living in his own territory, very dirty, but full of life...