Word: greyhounding
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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...
This year the H.S.A. took over the bus charter business, and charged $54.00 round trip. A call to Greyhound reveals that the cost of chartering a bus (with toilet) to Chicago and back is $1300. There are 39 passengers. It all works out to $22.22 each...
...Greyhound charges only $60.12 round trip...
...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...