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Wandell ("Wendy") Smith, 49, came up with his wife on a Greyhound bus from Ranger, W. Va., in 1955. The only work was in the coal mines, and, he says, "I was afraid of the mines. The spring flood had run us out of the house twice in two weeks. After I got it cleaned up, I said, 'Let's go.' " The Smiths left Ranger on a Sunday night, and by Wednesday morning Wendy had found work with a water-cooler firm. The job lasted 13 years. "Then the company moved off and left us," he says...
Memories dive through pain toward enlightenment. In Greyhound People, a woman rides a bus between San Francisco and Sacramento and rehearses the slow desertion of her ex-husband: "Looking back, I now see that it began with some tiny wistful remarks, made by him, when he would come across articles in the paper about swingers, swapping, singles bars. 'Well, maybe we should try some of that stuff,' he would say, with a laugh intended to prove nonseriousness." She traces the next stages, including a period of "a lot of half-explained or occasionally overexplained latenesses, and a seemingly...
...lure passengers, the airlines have slashed fares suicidally almost without interruption since last fall. Last week TWA and Capitol Airlines joined United Airlines in offering $99 one-way night flights between New York and San Francisco, which is far less than the going Greyhound bus fare...
Containing some so-called givebacks of past salary and benefit gains but assuring some job security during the next 31 months, the new contract between the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers raced through the union ratification process last week like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. By midweek, the agreement had been approved by the U.A.W.'s international executive board and the Ford unit council meeting in Chicago. Decisive rank-and-file endorsement is this week by the 160,000 U.A.W. members who are Ford employees, with the contract going into effect March...
...conditions they're likely to run into next weekend at Yale (in a slightly more significant match) Alien courts and a non-partisan crowd were already there. So, was the two-and-a-half-hour bus ride. What the Crimson added as its special contribution was anticipation of Greyhound lethargy...