Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LONDON is the town of the tall red double-decker buses, the buses which always appear to be on the verge of overturning as they twist top-heavily around the City's corners and through its narrow streets. The only person to keep his balance is the ticket collector, who passes up and down the aisle with easy poise, bending over each seat and rolling out a ticket from the machine hitched to his belt...
...story is soberly but evocatively set in middle-class New York City in the late 1930s-when double-decker buses still charged up Fifth Avenue and Danish pastry was as big as fielders' gloves; when the words "new" and "guild" and "theater" and "group" and "league" were always appearing in histrionic combinations on the drama pages; when "reasonable" men were still hoping that Hitler and Mussolini would turn out to be reasonable...
...colony's postwar history. Mobs of three or four thousand teen-age boys, usually led by older youths who wore Mao Tse-tung emblems on their shirts and waved the little red book of Mao's sayings, stoned hotels, overturned autos, set fire to a double-decker bus, and showered bottles on the police...
Coughing, vomiting and experiencing chest pains, Ruby at first received treatment for a virus at the jail, was hospitalized only after he assured Sheriff William Decker that he was feeling "not worth a damn." Though the precise source of Ruby's cancer remained undetermined, tests showed a malignancy in a lymph node in his neck and a cluster of nodules in the chest and lungs. So far advanced is the cancer that doctors ruled out surgery and radiation, instead gave Ruby regular intravenous doses of 5-fluorouracil, a drug that starves cancerous cells and, when successful, slows the deadly...
...Bryant Park, wryly quoted his statement: "The Parks Commission will take absolutely no responsibility for what happens next." The New York Times was all agog over his ideas for turning Flushing Meadows, the site of two world's fairs, into a future Olympic park. A three-decker golf driving range is already in the planning stage, Moving announced, and Japan's famed architect, Kenzo Tange, responsible for the main Tokyo Olympic buildings, has been asked to advise on a new Sports Palace...