Word: greyhounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christmas recess of 1963, two Harvard freshmen chartered a Greyhound bus to Chicago, charging each rider $25.85 round trip. They made the cost of their own trips only...
...plenty to criticize. The grounds cover 646 acres, and it is a tiring trudge from exhibit to exhibit. Visitors who have their minds set on seeing the main attractions spend a good part of a day standing in queues. Transportation is expensive: it costs $3 just to board a Greyhound escorter-if you can find one. The hardest thing of all to track down is a cool soft drink, and even that entails waiting in line...
...London last week, one bookmaker phoned another and said, "Something's up at Dagenham today. I don't know what it is or what race, but something's up." It was indeed. At the Greyhound Stadium in London's thriving industrial suburb of Dagenham, a determined band of bettors was about to attempt one of the greatest coups in the history of gambling...
...Remick, Montgomery Clift, and Kitty Carlisle with a man I didn't recognize, but I heard someone say it was Alan Jay Lerner. Carol Channing was there in a white stovepipe hat two feet high and an enormous pair of wrap-around sunglasses that would embarrass a Greyhound bus driver. I learned later that President Kennedy's sisters Pat and Jean were there, Anita Loos, Walter Wanger, Myrna Loy, Adolph Green, and Elizabeth Taylor's mother and father. Some of the other women there were really risque in those new gowns that show so much...
...that will use the new terminal. Last week, with his eye on lengthier travel as well, Osano asked the Japanese government for permission to start a bus line from Tokyo to a moun tain resort 140 miles away; he hopes that it will be the first link in a Greyhound-like system for Japan...