Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professors have "quit and gotten jobs driving buses" rather than work for the Pentagon. Driving buses--even in Massachusetts, where the Carmen's union makes comfortable men of busdrivers--is no occupation to choose. After the last run, you've got to break out the broom and sweep the bus; all you do all day is drive back and forth, up and down Cambridge Street or Mass Ave. It doesn't require a lot of brains, which is why few professors will ever take it up. But there are other jobs, and there is this thought--better...
When the first atom bomb exploded at a New Mexico test site, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, a Harvard Physics professor, turned to J. Robert Oppenheimer and said, "Now we are all sons of bitches." Better bus drivers than sons of bitches...
WHRB, Pres. WHRB, Bus. Mgr. Crimson Key Society, Sec. Radcliffe Intern House Film Society...
...hour bus drive from Princeton to Cambridge can rally drag. Who likes Jersey Turnpike fumes, Big Apple traffic, and Connecticut speed-traps? But returning Sunday afternoon from another first-place finish at last weekend's Ivy League Tournament in Princeton, the Harvard women's soccer team didn't mind the ride...
...first glance it looks like an ordinary, woman's handbag, just waiting to be lifted. But as thousands of pokers, prodders and pullers have discovered, it is not. It is made of bronze and, for the past three years, has been firmly bolted to its base, a bus-stop bench...