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...nation's biggest intercity passenger carrier, with a 102,181-mile route network covered by 5,422 buses, the Greyhound Corp. could presumably leave well enough alone with its slogan: "Leave the driving to us." But it hasn't. Over the past five years, Greyhound has reached off the highway to buy nine firms, set up a dozen more on its own. Among other things, it now leases locomotives and jetliners, runs tours, caters food, rents computers, writes insurance. And in Los Angeles last week, President Gerald H. Trautman promised that the company would continue "actively looking...
...anyone might have been expected to leave a watertight will, it was Arthur S. Kruse of Grand Haven, Mich. A retired insurance executive, he devoted the last years of his life to passionate study of his own family tree. Indeed, when he died aboard a Greyhound bus in Pennsylvania last March at the age of 67, Kruse was homeward bound from a genealogical mission to the New York Public Library. He had good reason to have given considerable thought to his probable heirs. When a Grand Haven bank opened his safe-deposit box after his death, it found securities worth...
...find half a dozen with high chairs." Almost to a man, visitors are irked by the difficulty in buying that tourists' essential, postage stamps. Where they find them in commercial machines, it strikes them as almost immoral that a quarter will purchase only four 50 stamps. The Greyhound bus, with its unlimited-travel $99 fare, is much admired. "People talk to you in the bus, and they tell you about their lives," says Parisienne Janine Kraus. "It's like a Russian novel...
...Hardin reportedly left for the West Coast a year or two ago aboard a Greyhound bus with the intention of "kicking the habit" enroute. People have told me for some time that Hardin is the best white male blues singer they ever heard. They were right: His "Old Time Smuggling Man" was great...
...tells him, "you're too kind. You carry too many woes. You get thrown all the time . . . It's all those coronations and that changing of the guard. They hooked you, and you can't get loose." Walker makes it back to the States by Greyhound, bound for home, still clutching his now mute bongo drums...