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Every time Quad residents wait at the curb near Johnston Gate or the Science Center, hearts leap. Is that monolith coming around the corner our shuttle? No, it's a Greyhound bus. Is that rattle-and-hum our shuttle? No, it's a snowplow. Is that knight in shining armor on wheels our shuttle...
...Weisberg-Barry group--mindless motion can land you on a Greyhound to Newark--and I ended up getting the last seat on a prop plane to Dulles Airport. Bay Buchanan was on the flight, a picture of peacefulness with eyes closed on lift-off, knowing that below her Bob Dole and Lamar Alexander were grounded. Pat, who took off the night before, was already in South Carolina fulminating about Beltway betrayals...
...Greyhound also paid for a series of ads whichemphasized the importance of Greyhound'scontribution to the war effort...
...College of New York, to which he commuted on cheap public transport. He graduated in geology in 1958 with a C average, but his real love was the Reserve Officer Training Corps, whose camaraderie and order intrigued him. That summer, as a $222.30-a-month lieutenant, he boarded a Greyhound bus bound for infantry school...
...predatory world of American cities, runaways are near the bottom of the food chain. Some are ruthlessly abused; others become urban survivalists, displaying remarkable stamina and cunning. The younger children face the longest odds. "You have people preying on these kids from the minute they arrive at the Greyhound station and the train stations," says Barry Fisher, program director at San Francisco's Huckleberry House. "I remember one 12- year-old girl who was quickly scooped up by a pimp." AIDS is especially devastating: of 12 youths from a Hollywood squat tested last year, half were HIV-positive...