Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates, alternates, friends, relatives and sundry spear carriers were not even there. It surely must have seemed that way, at least, to numerous barkeeps, concessionaires and other small businessmen, who had been anticipating a bonanza and were bitterly disappointed when none materialized. One cab driver was particularly irritated with the city for carting delegates around in buses. "I got me a sack for all the money I was gonna make on this," he complained. "Now I gotta sell the sack to eat. Business is terrible...
...heat one afternoon last week, the yellow school bus lumbered along the flat roads near the small San Joaquin Valley farm community of Chowchilla, 150 miles southeast of San Francisco. At the Dairyland Union School, Driver Frank Edward Ray Jr., 55, picked up 31 children who had just finished their six-week summer program. Ray dropped off five of them and still had several stops to go when he noticed a white van on the road ahead and slowed down to swing around...
...white men wearing nylon stocking masks leaped out, one of them waving two guns, and ordered Ray to stop. Two of them boarded the bus, drove it into Berenda Slough, a dry ditch off the road, and steered it into a thicket of bamboo. The gunmen then herded the driver and the 26 children-aged 5 to 14-into two vans. When that was done, the three men drove off with their terrified captives. Thus began a bizarre and, at week's end, still unexplained kidnaping that riveted the nation's attention for 36 hours...
...next morning, a red, white and blue Greyhound bus escorted by two highway patrol cars wheeled into Chowchilla with the 26 weary pupils and their driver. A couple of hundred joyous parents, friends and reporters greeted them with cheers, whistles and applause. Meanwhile, the police issued bulletins for three white males traveling in two vans...
...fine for them. Sort of. Writer Capote, now finishing his high-society novel Answered Prayers, didn't have a prayer in a Southampton, L.I., court last week, when he pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge. He was fined $165 and ordered to enroll in a state-run driver-rehabilitation program. Nobel Prizewinning Author Solzhenitsyn and Wife Natalya have learned Western ways too fast. She was at the wheel of their van when a Kansas highway patrolman pulled her over for doing 76 in a 55-m.p.h. zone. But no jail awaited Natalya or the startled author...