Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is housing, which has failed to expand to accommodate the explosive growth of Odessa's population-from 93,000 to 102,500 last year. Even those with money are often forced to leave for lack of a home, and Odessa churches and citizens have bought dozens of bus tickets for the destitute. Housing is somewhat more plentiful in Midland but is far too expensive -and distant-for the average oil-patch laborer. "Midland is a good place to raise children," goes the local saying, "Odessa is a good place to raise hell...
Morres came to Harvard after taking a year off, during which he "bought a bus pass and traveled 30,000 miles in two months, visited 30 different schools, worked in New York City for a month, stayed here at Harvard for two months, and worked as a page in the Nevada State Legislature." Once he got here, he found that, in some ways, it was easier to adjust to Harvard than to high school...
...together. As for their color, I had never seen a people of such varying shades of skin color and hair texture. The darker Cubans did not seem to suffer from racial discriminatory acts as they intermigled with their mulatto and lighter-skinned countrymen. We waved at them through the bus windows as some waved back. When we had been in Mexico City, motorists honked their horns impatiently, swore, cursed at pedestrians, and even called us names...
...hosts announced that our bus had arrived. We left the table and said good bye to our two waiters. They were very friendly and never tired of discussing politics with us. Outside, the sun stood in an ocean-blue background as fluffy white clouds floated by. It was a beautiful day for a field trip. We were on our way to the mountains--the Sierra Maestra mountains where Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other Cuban revolutionaries began a war which culminated in the liberation of Cuba...
...They were all bright and clean. We waved at the children who played in the spacious yards. Though simply dressed in tee-shirts and shorts, the kids were all very neat. With bright smiles, some returned our greetings, while others gave us curious glances. The droning sound of our bus contrasted with the intermittent chatter of our questions as we flooded our Cuban hosts with inquiries on the status of Cuban women, students' roles in a communist society, whether Fidel played basketball with the "masses," what was the "dictatorship of the proletariat...