Word: bus
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...boost in most people's "disposable family income." People feel differently in Jefferson Park, a mile to the northwest, where the housing project is going to slowly crumble and the Food Mart is going to be held up half a dozen times and then probably close, where the bus is going to come less and less often and the public schools are going to turn into bigger jokes than they...
Granted that the armed forces of World War II were as racially segregated as an Alabama bus and that WASP men governed all the centers of power, the New Deal nonetheless represented the first real recognition of the right of Jews, blacks and other minorities to take part in government. "On a very wide front and in the truest possible sense," Joseph Alsop writes in his new FDR: A Centenary Remembrance, "Franklin Delano Roosevelt included the excluded...
With all the new snow on the ground, wouldn't you rather be skiing? Rumor has it that the Harvard Entrepreneur Club is considering chartering a bus to escort students in Fine Arts 175a direct from their final on Friday afternoon to the slopes in Vermont. Night skiing, anyone...
...dwell most on Reagan's likability, as if still in need of an explanation as to how he stole away their constituency. As Mary McGrory put it, "Everyone knows the phenomenon: the newly jobless auto worker who still wants to 'give Reagan a chance'; the bus driver who is hit by the cutback in school lunch programs but who admires Reagan's stance against the Communists." Furthermore, she laments, "during his long march to the White House, Reagan, the hip-shooter, was often called to account. But as President, he is not." Right-wing columnists, such...
With Ken Kesey at the wheel, the "turned-on, tuned-in Supreme Court forms a rock band and tours the country in a psychedelic bus. Sandra Day O'Connor soars to the top of the charts with her rendition of "You Send Me (to Prison)." "Eat my torts," Justice Rehnquist says. "What are you going to do, take us to court...