Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already in September the University had spent $30,000 to initiate a shuttle bus service. Egged on by the protests of many, including Radcliffe students who were often too frightened to attend evening meetings away from the Quad, Harvard leased two buses on an experimental basis to transport students, free of charge, between the yard, the Business School and Radcliffe, from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. every day. After a slow autumn, when the buses were usually empty, the program began to gain momentum. By February what seemed like fleets of old rattling buses were careening all over the campus...
Authority official who told him, after he pleaded for a few more weeks to harvest the family's crops before going to Tule Lake: "Unless you're stupid, crippled or sick-all you Japs get on that bus...
...Nixon transcripts. In the best locker-room and fraternity tradition, all the President's men had their nicknames. John Dean told the Ervin committee last year about H.R. ("The Brush") Haldeman and John ("The Pipe") Mitchell, but Magruder adds to the list. Transportation Secretary John Volpe was "The Bus Driver"; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term for a client. Nixon himself was above nicknames; in memos and meetings he was referred to as "RN," or "the President," or occasionally...
...over Paris and sneak back into Britain again in stunts that would give pause even to Ian Fleming. To escape pursuers, he jumps off a high bridge onto a barge which happens to be passing right below. Eluding the law, he scrunches down in the back seat of a bus, where he is conveniently overlooked. It is almost as if Siegel lacked confidence in the measured tension of the first half and went after what is supposed to be a sure thing: a chase and a shootout. The standard formula looks particularly shabby on a film good enough to have...
Government efforts to excuse (or discredit) Rice's behavior succeed for a time. But after returning to earth, he calls for an end to manipulation by a hidden power elite and sets out in a silver jumpsuit and old silver school bus called Liberty Two to carry his message across the nation. He becomes a potent grassroots force before he is destroyed by shadowy operatives representing some sinister force within the Government...