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...towns, is that Greyhound may decide to abandon it altogether. The company has proposed dropping the money- losing route several times in the past but withdrew its plans in the face of local opposition. Should the strike continue, Greyhound may be more inclined than ever to close its Bishop depot once and for all, leaving travelers like Teddy Burkhalter trapped in town. The 89-year-old great- grandmother spends up to four months each year gallivanting by bus everywhere from Vancouver to Miami. Says she about a Greyhound-free Bishop: "Perish the thought...
...Scott, Amundsen's party arrived triumphantly at the pole on Dec. 14, 1911. When Scott got there a month later, he was devastated to find a Norwegian flag flying and notes from Amundsen. Things got even worse on the way back. Only 18 km (11 miles) from a supply depot, Scott and two companions were stopped by a blizzard, their fuel and food nearly gone. Scott's diary entries end this way: "We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity...
Writing the story of the land and people was enough. He set up his huge Graflex in the middle of Depot Street one evening to photograph the grain elevator gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front...
...Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter was one of those Harvard affiliates who took the jeep from its Cambridge depot. An expert in presidential politics, Porter has has taken a two-year leave of absence from the Kennedy School to serve as Bush's chief advisor for domestic policy. And Richard G. Darman '64, a former lecturer in public policy, currently heads the Office of Management and Budget...
...matter how bizarre his policies may seem, Vellucci claims a measure of success. He points to one scheme that is still among his most memorable--the 1956 effort to pave over Harvard Yard to make way for a bus depot...