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Nearly every weekend, Phillip Sanders drove a busload of overnight gamblers some 200 miles from Oakland, Calif, to Reno, and back again. Sanders was arrested at the finish of his 37th trip and charged with grand theft and possession of stolen property; he had been driving buses that did not happen to belong to him. As a police official put it with considerable understatement, "He had a very low overhead...
...best way (and the only way) for Harvard to stop leading scorers Kelly Odell, Liz Betts, and Syrena Carlbom will be to control the puck. If the Crimson can pull that off, there will be a sated squad in Cambridge and a busload of leftovers returning to New Jersey...
Some journalists felt they were being treated much better by the voters than by the candidates. Ronald Reagan used 150 news people on hand for a rally as unwitting bit players in a paid campaign broadcast. John Connally dragged a busload of reporters on a tightly programmed 40-hour tour of the state that left them little time to interview anyone but Connally supporters. At one stop the troupe paid a 4:30 a.m. visit to a farm in Elberon (pop. 193,000) that just happened to be populated by 40 or 50 of the candidate's fans. Says...
...that a year had passed since Elvis died--more than 20 years since he cut "Hound Dog," "All Shook Up," "Jailhouse Rock," and "Don't Be Cruel." But it was true, and that was how I came to be riding all night from Connecticut down to Tennessee with a busload of middle-aged women hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young and sweet, and who now spends sleepless nights...
...sweeps into the shabby residential Manila district of Santa Cruz in a black limousine, escorted by a busload of security guards and surrounded by political aides, cheerleaders, TV and movie stars. The crowd is enthralled by First Lady Imelda Marcos' skillful blend of political harangue and folksy charm. "I can tell the President what you need here," she says. "And you know that Imelda always gets action. "As the crowd roars its approval, Mrs. Marcos sings a couple of old favorite Filipino songs and throws jasmine garlands into the audience. Then she is off-for yet another speech...