Word: fares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students did not even have a grievance. The trouble all started fortnight ago when the municipal government announced a ½? bus-fare increase to help pay for bus drivers' wage increases and for 1,400 new buses. University students were specifically exempted from the fare hike, but that was immaterial. Proclaiming themselves as "defenders of the working class," they seized half a dozen buses and proceeded to the Zócalo, Mexico City's central square, currently being repaved. There the students demonstrated their proletarian solidarity: they played dodge-'em, bump-'em, hot-rodding the buses...
...midweek the capitulation came. It was from the presidential palace: a promise by Ruiz Cortines to revoke the fare hikes and appoint a committee including rioting students "to consider all aspects of this complex problem." Even that failed to pacify the students. They sallied out, joined a leftist faction in a street battle for control of the labor union at Pemex, the national petroleum monopoly. The students helped attack Pemex headquarters, retreated when hard-pressed police fired...
...Williamsport the Monterrey kids had to make some adjustments. They brought their own hot peppers with them, but had to give up the usual diet of beans, goat meat and tortillas for American fare. They were amazed at the plentiful supply of milk, often drank more at one sitting than their families back home could afford in a whole week. Little League doctors found them in fine health. Not one had a cavity in his teeth. None of the youngsters could speak English, but they got along famously with U.S. boys...
...never had a chance to forget: 17 years later, onetime Guerrilla Linehan, now 61, is still being deviled by Government bureaucrats. Last week came an ultimatum from Washington: Linehan could either defend himself in court or fork over the $554.89 that he owed the U.S. for his fare from Australia on a U.S.-owned troopship...
...scrubby palo borracho trees that line La Rioja's streets. They followed housewives from the marketplace and sometimes quietly stole vegetables from their baskets. At newsstands they even snagged and ate the latest edition of the daily Cordoba. As the pack prospered and multiplied on such fare, fines were imposed on loose burros and a squad of "burreros" was formed to round them up. The owners just waited and eventually bought back their animals at city auction for purely nominal prices. Public opinion would not stand for destroying the strays...