Word: busloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some mixers the girl-to-boy ratio was twenty-to-one," Watson said. "Many, many girls arrive by the busload, wait for hours to get in, and then are left high-and-dry because there are not enough boys to go around," he added, "and this causes much ill-will...
...police gave ground, the number of looters grew. "They won't shoot," an eleven-year-old Negro boy said coolly, as a pack of looters fled at the approach of a busload of police. "The mayor said they aren't supposed...
Death Throes. First, Los Angeles County police went after the "juvies" (minors under 18), began carting them off by the busload last summer for violating a 10 p.m. curfew dating back to 1939. As arrests increased 300%, grumbles soon grew to rumbles. Charging police brutality, the Strippies last month protested with two consecutive weekends of wild rioting; mobs of youths, at times numbering as many as 2,000, smashed store windows, tried to burn buses, and pelted police with rocks and bottles, bringing on 200 arrests. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors decided to get tougher, last week unanimously...
...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...
...election day, the NFWA head-quarters kept cars running out to the polls to carry voters who had come into town for the election. The union posted groups of people at road intersections throughout the country to make sure that the Teamsters did not try to sneak a busload of ineligible voters into the ranch. The Teamsters had their soundtrucks running all day long from the ranch to the city...