Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and ordered the city and the suburbs to "metropolitanize," to bus children from the city into the suburbs and vice-versa. The suburban school boards have appealed the decision. They contend that the federal government cannot require that their school children be bused, since the localities have not been guilty of intentionally segregating black from white students. The 84 suburban school districts surrounding Detroit claim a metropolitan busing order, in the absence of a demonstrated intent to segregate, is an unwarranted intrusion into their local government's legitimate authority...
...early February and failed. Saturday, the situation was a bit different for the Crimson. Harvard could afford no injuries. Furthermore, such key players as Levy Byrd and Bob Goodenow had their strength sapped by flu. Both of them got out of bed just in time to make the bus to New Haven. Ordinarily, they retaliate with a little body-bending of their own, but skating up and down the ice alone had to be painful Saturday night...
Harvard squash coach Jack Barnaby said yesterday that he expects his team will also shut out the Elis. "The guys will know how important each match is. I just hope they won't be bothered by the long bus ride to New Haven," he said...
Several hours after leaving Cochabamba, the bus, every one of its joints groaning, rounded the side of the mountain, and there, in the valley below, lay my destination. From the bus, Morochata, a town of 500 or so inhabitants, was dwarfed by the huge cliffs that vaulted high into the sky above it. The cluster of tin- and thatch-roofed adobe houses looked fragile at the foot of that implacable slab of rock, whose only distinction from the surrounding stark Andes was its lurid clay-red color, which seemed to brood over some dark mysterious secret life in the village...
...quarter of an hour the bus had made the descent from the mountain, braking every 20 yards or so, and had stopped on the road that ran just outside Morochata. I put my knapsack on my back and was pointed toward the restaurant where I was to meet my contact. There, seated at a table in an interior patio where the sun shone strongly, sat Padre Ray Herman...