Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were no echoes of decency at the next stop, a short bus ride from Warsaw. In 1943 the outside of Treblinka was designed like a Hollywood set to assuage the arriving victims and make them easier to manage. Bewildered Jews, released from cattle cars, saw a mock railroad station, complete with buffet and flower beds. Hours later the passengers were forced to strip and take "showers." They were crammed into gas chambers so tightly that babies were often thrust in over the heads of adults. The doors were then closed and the gas jets turned on. There were...
...agencies, mental hospitals and prisons. Just last month, for instance, a Boston judge placed 67 public housing projects into receivership under court control because they had been mismanaged by the Boston housing authority. Such decisions often require judges to rule on specific questions like garbage removal from tenements, proper bus routes for schoolchildren and minimum hot water temperatures for prison inmates...
...York: Excitement is tinged by anxiety on the bus from J.F.K. International Airport into Manhattan. The guide warns them that tips are not included on the bill in the U.S. and cautions against going to Central Park at night. Sunday morning the group boards the first of its many private buses and heads for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Bewildered but obliging, the visitors from the land that created Gothic cathedrals troop up the aisle, assured that this is the biggest Gothic cathedral in the world...
...bus ride away, just beyond Fresh Pond, is Mt. Auburn Cemetery. You may find it somewhat surprising that a cemetery is one of the more popular picnic areas in town. The older section, with elaborate sculpted stones boasting names like Lowell and Winthrop, is the more scenic. On the highest part of the cemetery rests a romantic turreted stone tower from which you can get an amazing view of the Boston skyline. Manicured paths line the cemetery itself, and they can be wonderful places to wander when you want to be alone and outdoors...
...student--Ellen--living with an obnoxious preppie who kept getting phone calls--me. One day these two have a fight over the chemistry girl's propensity for telling science jokes. The preppie flounces out and returns several hours later, asking for messages. "Your friend Chris was hit by a bus and killed," Ellen replied. The last line of the story read, "As the sound of retching filtered from the bathroom, she (Ellen) smiled over her little joke...