Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NUMBERS RACKET. To encourage greater use of mass transit, several writers proposed a rolling numbers game: every time they take a bus or subway, riders would be given a lottery ticket that would make them eligible to win cash prizes in weekly drawings...
...subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there was San Diego Bus Fleet Owner Jack Haberstroh's idea: he charges no fares on his buses, but makes a profit nonetheless by turning each vehicle into a rolling advertising medium that is not only completely slathered with ads, inside and out, but also subjects passengers to tape-recorded pop music-and commercials...
Another observer, spotting a bus-trailer combine on a dusty back road in India, ? guessed that it must be a fancy transport for carrier pigeons. Equally baffled reactions greet Rotels wherever they turn up, from Tehran to Tierra del Fuego. Rotels? It is short for "rolling hotels," which may be the ultimate in no frill, if-it's-Tuesday-it-must-be-Kenya world travel...
There are 42 Rotels based in twelve countries and all owned by Rotel Tours a West German travel firm. In the 17 years since its first Mercedes bus dormitory left Munich for Jerusalem, the company has booked more than 150,000 customers on trips through scores of nations on six continents. Thi year some 20,000 passengers will choose to leave the driving, the cooking, the sleeping arrangements and almost everything else to Rotels...
...Beethoven's nine dramatic symphonies, and the cycle will be nearly completed on Sunday afternoon when the Boston Symphony performs two more. If you've been dying to get out to Tanglewood but lacked the means, you'll be in luck Sunday--the Cambridge YMCA is sponsoring a bus that will leave in the morning, drop you at the festival doorstep, and depart right after the concert. There are also buses leaving regularly from Boston--or better yet, a scenic two-hour ride on your own four wheels...