Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the snowbound road before we got used to the noise of the rotor and the sight of the damage below. Thirty minutes of waiting and, finally, the other helicopter appeared. It was now a race against Western Airlines--calls were made to hold the flight and the bus was warmed up but the members of our group weren't on that shift. A woman got off, with two small children and six large suitcases. It had cost her $300 to go fifteen minutes in the air but her fur showed that she could handle it. Smiling at the copter...
...think it was a good start to the season for everybody, especially after that two-and-one-half hour bus ride," Havens said after the match...
...emotionally invalid or, at last, hopelessly and rather touchingly quaint. The women's movement called a world of once reflexive rituals into doubt. The masculine urge to rise when a woman entered the room seemed a sort of humiliating impulse, uncontrollable, incontinent. A man seated on the downtown bus might endure agonies of self-examination before offering his seat to a woman. The male had to learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses...
...immensely popular Democratic Congressman, Goodloe Byron. Then Byron, 49, died while running along the Potomac River, and his widow took his place on the ballot. Perkins' chances of winning were never good, but they got even worse when he was tossed in jail for assaulting a woman bus driver. Undaunted, he pointed out: "We've had plenty of Congressmen who ended up in jail. What's wrong with one who started in jail?" The voters thought otherwise. On election night, Perkins consoled himself by showing up, unshaven and wearing his stained wool overcoat, at a Democratic victory...
Travel companies are leaping into action. Israel's Egged Bus Cooperative is preparing a Tel Aviv-Cairo trip for $6 one way. El Al hopes to start regular air service between the two cities. Shipping operators are planning a car-ferry service between Haifa or Ashdod and Port Said. To speed these plans, Israeli tourist officials have been trying to confer with their Egyptian counterparts at various international meetings...