Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last-minute snag. By vote of the Politboro, the Russians refuse to sign until the U.S. agrees to integrate all its public schools. This is a matter of principle with the Russians; they will not budge. The American public is outraged. As if busing was not bad enough, to bus on Communist command! Just what anti-busers said all along: it's a Communist plot. Negotiations break down...
They can be amiable and unassuming by day, indistinguishable from other British teen-age girls. But at night they become birds of prey. Sometimes silently, sometimes shrieking, they swoop down in groups on unsuspecting victims in dark streets, at lonely bus stops and in deserted toilets. Kicking, biting, scratching, punching, they reduce the victim-usually another female-to hysteria and then disappear, stealing perhaps only a few pence. To Londoners, they are known as the bovver (cockney for bother, which in turn means fight) birds, the newest and in some ways the eeriest street gangs since the Teddy boys terrorized...
...course until one day recently when Angelo, accompanying Mrs. Nixon's party, found herself locked in a hotel room in Yellowstone Park. With no phone, no response to her shouts and the press bus about to leave, she threw caution - and herself - to the winds: "Feeling like the prisoner of Zenda, I opened the window, forced the screen and jumped out. The room, happily, was on the first floor...
...grown up on a tiny Georgia farm, he feels entitled to declare: "This country has always been a place where anyone who was willing to work at it could rise up to some degree." He is antiracist: "If someone asked my wife to sit in the back of the bus, I'd be the meanest man alive." He explains part of the reason he is voting for Nixon: "The political values of this country are mainly middleclass. Because this group believes in human rights, people have sometimes been too anxious to right any human wrong that occurs, and they have...
...came in." She went to Europe in 1956 and rose through the apprentice shops of Germany and Italy. She especially remembers arriving in the small German village of Erkenschwick to find that the theater had no dressing rooms. She and the rest of the cast changed in the bus. "The whole town cheered us one by one as we got off the bus in our costumes," she recalls...