Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear light-colored clothing or reflector patches. The Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. began giving away patches and distributed 500,000 in two days. In Fairfax County, Va., guards used highway flares to guide children across streets...
...Dewhurst played a jailer's daughter in an off-Broadway revival of Edwin Mayer's 1930 Children of Darkness. Appearing opposite her was a young actor named George C. Scott.Their meeting, which Scott later described as a "bus accident," led to divorces from their spouses and their own marriage in 1959. They bought an 18th century farmhouse in South Salem, N.Y., combining acting with raising a family. In 1963, while Scott was filming The Bible in Italy, he encountered Ava Gardner, and the marriage to Dewhurst dissolved. Four years later, Scott and Dewhurst remarried. In 1971, however, Scott...
...also announced that there will be a new drive to stencil all moveable items like TV sets. Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, said success in such an effort would deter criminals from entering Harvard property. The final step is the expansion of Harvard's bus service. Another bus has been acquired to supplement the two now in operation...
PERHAPS THE MOST ODIOUS effect of pack journalism, though, is the "winner's bus" attitude. Like bees to honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...
Despite the occasional tendency to be overearnest in his analysis of certain events, Crouse has a gift for constructive, compassionate criticism. He shows a willingness to fraternize with the boys on the bus, to understand them on their own terms, but it is his trenchant criticism of the institution of which they are a part that makes this book superb...