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...strike began would be eligible to vote. Naturally, many of the migrants were scattered all over the state. The NFWA made a concerted effort to find them and bring them back. They sent several cars around the state and picked up supporters who were eligible to vote. A busload of eligible voters was picked up in El Paso, and one man came from a town south of Mexico City just to cast his ballot...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Strikers Appeal to Old Ties With Mexico But Face Problems of Fatigue and Racism | 9/24/1966 | See Source »

...years, making squat, swarthy Um Kalthoum, now a matron of 64, the most famous personality in the Arab world, better known than Nasser, especially among desert folk. When she appeared for the first time at Lebanon's Baalbek Festival last month, her followers came by the busload from points as distant as the Persian Gulf. Her two concerts in the 4,000-seat tent theater amid the Roman ruins were sold out months in advance, and scalpers got up to $250 for tickets. While she conducted the 20-piece orchestra with flicks of a long linen hanky, her smoky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Nightingale of the Nile | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...also receives a steady parade of his subjects, who are driven by the busload from Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Awakening Land | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...busload of North Harvard residents and supporters left for Washington, D.C. last night in an effort to seek "federal in their fight to save their homes from being razed...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matihews, | Title: BRA Resistors Seek in Washington | 8/16/1965 | See Source »

Pursuing this social realism angle, Miss Clarke throws out little cliches of social criticism. Duke's mother gives a self-conscious declamation against government indifference, a busload of Harlem schoolboys is shown touring Wall Street, a college boy comes home unable to understand his junkie brother...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: The Cool World | 4/17/1965 | See Source »

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