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...Keukenhof tulip fields would have to buck traffic jams swollen by a European soccer cup final in Amsterdam. Instead of sending her guests by car or state coach, Juliana packed them into three buses, each specially equipped with a bar. and the riders looked for all the world like Greyhound passengers rattling through Kansas. The experience was so novel, and the Queen's liquor supply so generous, that the royals had a high old time. Reported one bus driver: "They were thrilled by the idea. They made jokes about themselves, changed seats a lot and visited around...
...operating subsidiary, Continental Trailways, and built it into the second largest U.S. bus system, with 53,000 miles of routes in 34 states. Compared with the top dog in the bus business, giant Grey hound, Continental is still a pup, but it is growing at a rate to give Greyhound pause. Last week, while Greyhound was reporting a 2.5% increase in its 1961 operating revenues (to $334 million), Continental announced that its revenues had jumped 11% from $45 million to $50 million. Even more impressive, Continental's 1961 profits soared...
...Because Greyhound had a virtual monopoly of existing long-haul interstate routes and the ICC was unwilling to franchise new ones, Moore was obliged to build up his system by buying small local bus lines in a careful pattern that linked them into new long-haul routes. Octopus-like, Continental stretched its tentacles across the Southeast and into the Midwest; by 1953 the company had its first transcontinental route (it now operates five). At that point Moore found that his fledgling system lacked the equipment to capitalize on the bus industry's greatest potential asset: the growing U.S. network...
...remedy this, Moore tried to buy copies of Greyhound's popular big Scenicruiser. But General Motors, which manufactures the Scenicruiser, turned him away. The Scenicruiser dies, explained G.M., belonged to Greyhound, and would be all tied up on Greyhound production for years to come. Undaunted, Moore ordered his engineers to design a big new bus of their own. Then he went ahead and lined up a Belgian firm to build them, and by 1957 had the first of his flashy new Eagle buses on the road...
...Greyhound bus, rumbling through the night somewhere between Cambridge and Washington, several nascent "peace marchers" huddled around a small reading light and talked of the Washington Project, and why they were going. They were all afraid, though not with the frenzied, irrational fear of sudden annihilation. Very few believe a bomb is going to drop on their heads tomorrow. Rather, they spoke of the "escalating" arms race and the frustration of prolonged negotiation and international deadlock. Certain images recurred in the conversation: spirals, circles, nets. Images of impotence, despair and endlessness...