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...briefly. He is a traveling man. Soft-spoken and polite. He dines on Whoppers and writes love notes to a teen-age movie star at Yale-while going madder by the minute, buying guns and hitting the dream cities of Denver, Nashville, Dallas and L.A., until he arrives by Greyhound at the city of the country's heart, which he is driven to penetrate. So after a while even he becomes real. At week's end one understands not everything, but a lot more than seemed possible on frantic Monday. The people were in control here...
...procure his weekly bus, Sanders would slip into a Greyhound driver's uniform, walk into the company yards, slip behind the wheel of an empty bus and rumble away. At trip's finish he returned the bus to its bay. The scheme might lave rolled on indefinitely if Sanders had not dozed off that last afternoon. When he didn't pick up his passengers, one of them called Greyhound to find out why their bus was late...
Although the order to vacate the dormitories caused problems for the massive number of students seeking transportation from Ithaca, University officials chartered "every bus we could get our hands on" to provide students with transportation. Greyhound Bus Lines Co. and U.S. Air established ticketing arrangements for students. The University also provided lodging for students from foreign countries and students who could not get home during the shutdown, said David Drink-water, dean of students...
...Fort McCoy, Wis., scene of repeated fights and homosexual rapes among some of the toughest refugees from Cuba, 120 young men packed their meager possessions in plastic garbage bags, boarded Greyhound buses, and then sat for 4½ hours while repairs were made to their chartered Boeing 737-the only hitch in the evacuation of Fort McCoy. By week's end nearly all 3,000 refugees were gone. Meanwhile, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Pennsylvania, about 2,500 Cubans were loading their belongings into cardboard cartons for a similar journey this week...
...corridor connecting New York City and Washington, D.C. Starting Dec. 14, New York Air plans to offer $49 tickets on ten daily business-hour flights between the two cities. The weekend and evening fare will drop to $29, which is only 55? more than the cost on the Greyhound bus. Eastern now charges $60 for a shuttle ticket. Lorenzo intends later to extend service to Boston, and then to expand to twelve Northern cities as far west as Indianapolis...