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...side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...
...sparky, one part anger to two parts joy, like a more thoughtful, humble Lee lacocca. "Ninety-five per-cent of industrial designers don't design," he says. "They are essentially stylists under the aegis of the marketing department." Stumpf hates the raw, unfriendly interiors of the standard school bus. He hates dull, inexpressive Amtrak locomotives. He hates hermetic, inscrutable electronics. "Things should telegraph their ability to come apart. You can't tinker with things anymore...
...deadly bat. That these and other characters do not have much to do with the story of Dolores and Owney is not so noticeable as one might imagine. Breslin puts a lot of life on the page. Like a good barroom storyteller, he can make you miss your bus with one more for the road. --By R.Z. Sheppard
...upstairs above the dusty front desk, rooms you let yourself into. "Our guests just went in the rooms and paid the next day," Harriet said. "Well, those days of leaving your door unlocked are gone." And so are the days of the hotel. Now it serves as a Trailways Bus stop (not a station; Harriet does not want the bother). A GO BIG RED sign out front announces the 7:15 a.m. to Albuquerque, the 8 a.m. to Farmington, the 8 p.m. to Albuquerque and the 11:55 p.m. to Farmington, with connections to Salt Lake City...
...third Tuesday night of each month, the Cuba News pages are put on the 11:55 bus and transported to Cortez, Colo., where the printer picks them up. Harriet will not stay up to meet the 11:55 bus anymore, so the women take the pages to a clerk at a local convenience store who gives them to the bus driver...