Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good measure, last year's grueling road trips have disappeared. Cornell and Navy visit Cambridge this season, and the longest bus ride is a mere jaunt to New Haven, where the hapless Elis haven't had a winning season since 1963. Otherwise, Coach Alex Nahigian and his charges will travel to exotic colleges like MIT, Northeastern, Boston College and Tufts, and sit back while Army, Princeton, and Dartmouth charter their way to Soldiers Field...
...Answers to this will provide information required by the Voting Rights Act. Future energy programs could profit from the answers concerning how a residence is heated (by steam, warm-air furnace, fireplaces, etc.), the fuel used, whether there is air conditioning and if respondents get to work by car, bus, subway, bicycle, on foot or other means...
This year even transients and drifters are going to be tracked down. As in previous counts, census forms will be distributed to hotels, rooming houses and campgrounds; enumerators will visit missions, flophouses, all-night cinemas and tram and bus stations. For the first time census takers, often working in pairs for safety, will drop by pool halls, food-stamp centers, employment offices. They will approach vagrants on street corners and ask whether they have already been counted...
...Bus No. 991 chugged along its early morning run from Monte Mario to Piazza del Risorgimento with 50 office-bound passengers aboard. As it paused in traffic near an open-air fruit-and-vegetable stand, a mustached, black-haired youth steadied his revolver on the shoulder of an old woman passenger and fired seven times. Three of the bullets hit their mark: Appeals Court Judge Girolamo Minervini, 61, was killed instantly...
...TELLS THE great story of the tense year the entire black population of Montgomery, Alabama boycotted their racist bus system. Saintlike in their patience and non-violence. E.D. Nixon, Martin Luther King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and isolated Blacks of Montgomery waited for the wisdom of the Supreme Court...