Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows signs of life. Hippos snort still in the muddy waters-though many have been shot out for greasy "hippoburgers" -and crocodiles abound, well fed by the bodies that get regularly dumped into the river. Ground transport is almost totally lacking. Less than 5% of Uganda's total bus fleet is operable; breakdowns are permanent because no spare parts are available...
Although elections still command much of the spotlight, the UFW has to focus its very limited resources on getting negotiations underway. For example, at Coachella Growers (citrus), the UFW won the union election, but the company has harassed workers by stopping bus service and cutting back the work week. Workers must now get up at 4 a.m. if they wish to commute; otherwise they must live in the labor camp which is expensive and only accomodates men. Growers have said no to a UFW hiring hall, no to a grievance procedure, and no to UFW medical and pension plans...
Linda is 30 now. Her skin is flawed, and her lank dark hair is sketched with gray. She has great wet marmot eyes. She has a quick, sly mouth. She looks like a 17-year-old who has spent three days on a bus. A photographer whose profession calls for him to make cool calibrations of female beauty says her face is ordinary and her body nothing special. In courtly times he would have been skewered. She sings You 're No Good, Desperado or Love Has No Pride, and the eye of the beholder mists over. She is beautiful...
...high points, the weekend also had its misfortunes. Injuries, never far from an athlete's mind, marred the tourney weekend. The most tragic accident befell the Cornell teams when their bus went out of control on an icy road and flipped over as the women returned to Ithaca Sunday night. Several team members were hospitalized and two were placed under intensive care...
After their chartered flight fell through, and after enduring a torturous bus ride from Syracuse to Ithaca, the Harvard skaters arrived at Cornell's Lynah Rink last night seeking retribution for a 7-4 loss earlier in the season...