Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the 100 bus routes in the Department of street Railways (DSR) system runs in a straight line. It is said by some that a cartographer would need about an hour to map a bus route to the city from a starting point ten miles away. So if you live ten miles away from your job, you either take five buses to work...
Meanwhile, the political polarization of Chile continued, with Allende seemingly unable to do much about it. The truckers' protest triggered sporadic strikes by doctors, shopkeepers and bus and taxi drivers angered by ballooning inflation (300% in the first six months of this year) and meager incomes. To prevent chaos, the President tried to make peace with the opposition Christian Democrats. Nothing came of the dialogue because the party was badly split. One faction urged support for the government. Another, led by ex-President Frei, was determined to help topple it by withholding cooperation...
...worst problem seems to be getting there in the first place. The Dallas and Fort Worth city councils, claiming a monopoly on ground transportation to the airport, are being sued by Continental Bus Systems Inc., which wants a piece of the action. While the matter remains snagged in the courts, the only way to go is by that old environmental nemesis, the automobile. Even that will not be easy, because traffic jams seem certain to develop on behind-schedule highway approaches...
Some of this may be funnier than the networks intended, but if not, the viewer can try one of the new sitcoms. Several comedy half-hours have jumped aboard Archie Bunker's blue-collar bus−one, NBC's Lotsa Luck, quite literally. The show stars Dom DeLuise as an ex-bus driver promoted to clerk in the lost-and-found department. (In its first episode last week, Lotsa Luck stretched Bunker bluntness into common vulgarity with a plot that revolved entirely around a purple-lidded, tangerine-colored toilet.) Just as DeLuise contends with his crotchety/lazy/dumb family relations...
...bus will make a complete circuit of the campus route at least once an hour during the other scheduled times...