Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take-offs daily. Three parallel runways, nine airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 1,339. Accessibility: good. Allow 15 to 45 min. for nine-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($7.50). Half-hourly limousines downtown ($3.50). Two commuter airlines. Parking: ample. Far-out lots served by shuttle bus. Flow Through: well planned. Sidewalk check-ins, baggage carts for rent (75?). One big central terminal with fingers leading to boarding areas. Longest walk: 2,680 ft. Baggage checkout: good. Hotels/Motels: plentiful. Nineteen near airport. Amenities: unambitious. Adequate lounges, but main terminal has only two benches. Coffee shop, cafeteria, snack...
...respected. They are rebels, by his murky reckoning, against a society that does not give them a chance. One peculiar value is demonstrated by a teen-ager who prowls Manhattan's Upper East Side in search of eyes to gouge. To date, he has made known attempts on a bus driver, a journalist, an Egyptian tourist, the son of former Manhattan Democratic Party Leader Edward Costikyan and others. He was never locked up because he was underage...
Stormy clouds lowered over the hamlet of Ecône in French Switzerland last week as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre reached the point of no return in his "traditionalist" insurrection against the Pope of Rome. Some 4,000 Western European followers had flocked in by bus and train, along with 80 priests from round the world. As they sat on wooden benches and freshly mowed grass, the white-haired archbishop delivered a defiant, Luther-like sermon...
They include teachers and policemen, postal workers and bus drivers, health-lab technicians and jail keepers, IRS and Secret Service clerks. All are on a public payroll-and all have connived to be simultaneously on the public dole. Last week, in the latest crackdown against a special breed of welfare cheater, 164 civil servants in Chicago and New York City were indicted for double-dealing an extra slice of the taxpayers' pie. Said U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner in Chicago: "The problem is immense. There is an astonishing lack of respect for law from public employees. We rest our whole...
First problem at the foot of the Capitol. Broken water main had left a puddle that a transit bus hit just as Jones came along. He was sprayed. quit now and take a cab, he asked himself, or press on? Keep going, he decided. Turn on to Pennsylvania Avenue. Lovely morning. Remembering back to the Inauguration Day of Jan. 20, 1969. As an aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded...