Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of devaluation and lower govern ment subsidies for basic commodities, prices of most items last week were in creased anywhere from 35% to 200%. The cost of sugar, which already was 21.60 per lb., tripled, and milkwent up 60%. Egg prices jumped 64%, bread 100%, meat 35%. Bus fares will rise 60%, and gasoline 64%, to $1.86 per gal. Fuel oil for industry zoomed up 117%. The standard of li ving of most middle-class Israelis, as measured by prices and income, overnight dropped about...
Divorced. Jackie Gleason, 58, TV comic whose role as Bus Driver Ralph Kramden became a classic; and Beverly McKittrick, 42, his former secretary; after four years of marriage-his second -no children; in Fort Lauderdale...
Suffering noticably from the effects of a somewhat alcoholic Friday night bus ride to Princeton, Harvard's rugby club suffered three decisive losses at the Tigers' hands on Saturday morning...
...roaming Wild Card is but one of the grace notes of mass transit in Pittsburgh these days. Painted in pastels or ablaze with psychedelic designs, trolleys and buses have become sprightly delights. The bus groaning up steep Perry Highway bears the blue and white of Perry High School, and passengers rock in their seats to music provided by a cassette tape recorder. The transit authority also sells a $1 weekend pass, known as the Big Buck, that allows four people to ride wherever they like from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Monday...
...more subdued party-goers arrived in white tie and tails, but a number of enthusiasts did their bit to kick off the Harvard weekend by wearing tiger-striped suits and fake tiger-fur jackets. Their "dates" ("This is my date Sally," was the standard introduction), imported by the bus-and train-load full from Briarcliff, Wheaton, Manhat-tanville, and even as far away as North Carolina, wore outfits that had never known the rack at Filene's basement--or anywhere else, for that matter...