Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CURRIER HOUSE DINING ROOM. Bus Stop...
...same time, Allende was clearly on the political defensive. He offered to submit the truckers' demands to mediation and they refused. Then he invited the opposition Christian Democrat leaders to meet with him to discuss ways of ending the strike, only to be rebuffed again. Last week Santiago bus owners threatened to strike and Allende hastened to meet their demands with only minor reservations. He agreed to draft a law guaranteeing that bus transport will remain in the private sector, return three nationalized bus companies to their owners, and drop lawsuits against transport leaders brought during the strikes...
...been an appealing place. The stark, institutional-style buildings and their occupants-now mostly impoverished blacks and Puerto Ricans, with a minority of white pensioners-are isolated both geographically and culturally from Boston proper. There are no private doctors in the project, and Boston City Hospital is a long bus ride away...
...teen-agers viciously kicked and beat up a 22-year-old girl in a toilet during a football game. Last month three bovver birds were sentenced to up to two years each in reform school for pulling a 25-year-old schoolteacher to the ground at a west London bus stop and kicking her until her face was covered with blood. "The girls are even tougher than the boys," said one judge at Old Bailey last week. "It was once assumed that if a man and a woman committed a crime, the woman was under the domination...
Entitled Man-Made Philadelphia (M.I.T. Press; $3.95), the guide is a boon to tourists and may open Philadelphian eyes as well. Instead of starting with the usual panegyric to Founder William Penn, it begins with three pages of maps of major streets, bus routes and the subway system-the city's bone structure. The guide duly describes and portrays such Philadelphia splendors as Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, the old residential area of Society Hill, the Beaux Arts vistas of Ben Franklin Parkway. But the authors always remind the reader that there...