Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their brethren in other major cities may still suffer from the abuse of frustrated passengers, but in Pittsburgh, bus drivers are being greeted by cheers and even occasional kisses. As part of an imaginative plan to jazz up its service, the Pittsburgh transit authority has set loose in the streets a bus known as the Wild Card. Passengers climbing aboard discover that the coin box is covered by a leather bag decorated with playing cards. The ride is on the house...
Until last year, the downtown district and the tax base of Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,000), were disappearing at approximately the same rate. The bus sys tem had broken down, the turreted old railway station was closed, and the streets were full of potholes...
...appropriate spot for the Northerners to visit. It became a landmark in school desegregation in 1970, when a federal judge ordered crosstown busing, which originally affected about one-fourth of the district's 75,000 pupils (some 46,000 out of 77,300 students now take a bus to school, half of them bused for desegregation). But busing was no more popular in Charlotte than it is in Boston. In fact, only four days before the Boston contingent arrived, racial fighting forced the closing of one of the district schools, Olympic High. Seven students were arrested and two others...
About half an hour later, the bus carrying the Harvard varsity football team back from Hanover, N.H., stopped at the same corner. Over a half dozen players stepped off the bus, shouting that they wanted to buy Gallo wine...
...Home. Compared with Roxbury, Southie has a low crime rate. That is another source of pride-and fear. "If I sent my kids on the bus to Roxbury and anything happened to them, I'd shoot myself. It's that simple," says a father of two. Though Southie spokesmen deny that racism plays any part in their resistance, prejudice is evident in the "Nigger go home" graffiti...