Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan into effect. Indeed, for Detroit, which suffered one of the nation's worst riots in 1967, the first week of forced busing was remarkably peaceful. Although a few minor demonstrations were held by antibusing groups, there were no serious incidents in the schools or along the bus routes...
...London's Sotheby's, the internationally famed art auction house, has named Libby Howie, 24, as the first female auctioneer in its 232-year history. Linette Simms, 43, black and the mother of six, is now tootling along as the first woman among 350 male London school-bus drivers after previously being turned down because of her sex. And in advertising, notices now solicit "secretaries" instead of "dolly birds...
...pressure. Most Nordic events will be staged at Seefeld, 15 miles to the northwest of the city; three miles south, at Igls and Patscherkofel, tourists can take in the bobsled, luge and men's downhill. The other alpine races will be held at Axamer Lizum, a 25-minute bus ride to the southwest from downtown...
...hadn't seen before. One said it was "nothing new;" another admitted he'd felt "like a mouse set into a box with a cat" but had warmed considerably during the talk; another said his mind "had been blown." "You know," Dan mused as I walked him to the bus, "I've missed out on a lot. I'm the same age as you, but I never had this college life. I wish had time to sit and talk these things over with people, know what I mean? I learned a lot tonight, but these people at Harvard kinda scare...
...buses were then used to carry the whites to schools outside the county. When black students tried to board the buses, their way was blocked; in one demonstration, the Grand Dragon of Georgia's Ku Klux Klan attacked a black student who was trying to climb on a bus full of whites...