Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life is hectic on a package tour with potential Presidents The two dozen reporters who sat slumped in the lobby of the Ramada Inn in Keene, N.H., had been waiting for Walter Mondale for almost three hours when the announcement finally came that the bus was ready for boarding. They gathered their gear, slogged through ankle-deep slush, and were just settling into their seats when word filtered down the aisle: "He's going to answer something." No one knew what Mondale would be asked, or by whom, but they grabbed their notebooks and, grumbling and muttering, trudged back...
News organizations have been reporting from the pre-election trail with some consistency for nearly a year, and by last week the entourages of journalists far outnumbered the candidates and their traveling staffs. News personnel aboard the bus (or plane or van) can enjoy intimacy with a potential President: John Glenn, for example, has led a group sing-along of gospel and folk tunes, and shakes hands with the regulars at the end of a swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must...
...Bernard Weinraub, a veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times: "It looked like something that I ought to try once, and now that I have, once seems like it may be the right number." But many an editor or pundit - a "big foot," in the parlance of the bus - enjoys returning to the trail occasionally. Says Des Moines Register Editor James Gannon: "I go to see the reporters, who are my pals, as much as the candidates...
...officials seemed like they "were hidding something. "One day while driving alon the Jordanian border in the South, our tour guide mentioned that the border was very safe, and that there had been no problems with terrorists for years in that region. "Shhh," said the Ministry official on the bus, under his breath, and the two argued heatedly-in Hebrew. The official obviously didn't want those aboard to hear too much about terorism. But it was difficult. If no impossible, to hide several divisions within Israel...
Hidden on the outskirts of the Radcliffe Quad, beyond the route of the shuttle bus, lie two squat concrete structures which might escape notice altogether except for smells of dinner cooking which draw an influx of students around 5 p.m. each evening...