Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeterminate composition in a shopping center along the road, after 2 p.m. The next bus, scheduled for 2:30, came by at a quarter to 3, and I once again made the mistake of assuming the fun was over. Sources say East Brunswick to Princeton is a 40 minute ride, but this guy was making all the local stops...
...other trips--from N.J. to Manhattan, cab rides across the City, subways to and from Brooklyn (my ancestral home), a bus ride to yet another close friend, this one in Washington, the bus ride back to New York--passed without major incident. Well, almost. I had planned to take an early bus back from Washington on Sunday morning, meeting one of my Harvard friends at Port Authority (this time fastidiously avoiding all religious freaks and bums and whatevers), there to get on a Boston-bound bus after lunch to return to school...
...figured out, and written down a note to myself--four-and-a-half hour bus ride, wake at 8 a.m., leave house at 9, get on 10 a.m. bus and arrive in New York at 12:30. I had successfully completed the first few steps of the program and was confortably ensconsed on the Greyhound when the driver said (at least this one used the P.A. system), "Ten o'clock to New York, arriving Port Authority at 2:20. No smoking...
...singing a James Brown song with the chorus, "Say it loud/ I'm black and I'm proud!" Travolta waited for his moment, then retaliated with "Say it light/ I'm white and outasight!" One early indication of the Travolta charm is that he not only survived the bus ride but also got a few laughs into the bargain...
...Once the ride of terror began, moreover, the usual Israeli talent for inventive tactics seemed somehow to collapse. There were no smokescreens laid across the highway, and only one feeble attempt was made to force the hijacked bus to stop. Not until the captured bus hit a stretch of highway seeded with nails outside Tel Aviv were the terrorists and their hostages stopped by a blockade hastily erected by police who had been alerted to the hijacking...