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Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
1) Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire (1942)
2) Olympic Bombing 1996, Richard Jewel, The Wrong Man
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3) Biosphere 2: An American Space Odyssey
4) Retro Indy: Biographer Ray Boomhower shares his fascinating figures in local history
5) 21 old-fashioned fruit punch recipes (1969)
6) The Shadow of the Thalidomide Tragedy
7) St Paul’s street trolley: The Auto of the People (1904)
8) The American girl – fashion’s latest model (1915)
9) Terri Schiavo Documentary: The Case’s Enduring Legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-rQ3tIabvM
10) The Battle for School Busing
11. Photos: See retro New York in all its black-and-white glory
12. Retro album makeovers for modern musicians from Miley to Drake
Retro News Wednesday Just For You
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
1) President John F. Kennedy’s 51st News Conference, March 6, 1963
2) Ronald Reagan – Rich Should Pay Taxes
3) 100 Years Ago Today – March 20, 1913
4) Air Crash Investigation: Swissair Flight 111 ‘Fire In The Cockpit’
5) Dead Baby Comes Back To Life
6) Woman’s Skin Turns Silver For 60 Years – Rosemary Jacobs
7) Walking dead: Girl comes home after she was buried
8) 4 Yr Old Has The Same IQ As Einstein, Bill Gates & Stephen Hawking
9) IQ Test: 10 Questions
10) Lee Harvey Oswald Assassinated By Jack Ruby 50 Years Ago Today On November 24th 1963
Victim identified as Rutland resident Nancy Woods
A bus driver helping her lone passenger disembark from the vehicle was killed when the vehicle started to move.
Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said Nancy Woods, 46, of Rutland, stopped her bus near Chestnut and Maple streets around 3 p.m. and was helping her passenger get off of the back of the bus when it started to move forward.
Witnesses said Woods ran around to the driver’s side door and reached inside, but the bus hit her and continued to roll down Chestnut Street.
The bus, which was described as the size of a large van, continued to roll until it hit a garage on Maple Street.
The passenger remained in the van and suffered minor injuries.
The investigation is continuing.
Speeding Buses©
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Today I saw two different MBTA buses
at two different times
Going in two different directions
They had their employer name in common
Along with the facts that they were speeding and rushing through a yellow to red light
Then I saw a speeding school bus
So now is it a must that all buses of any kind have to speed
I thought about how it must have felt
Felt to be a passenger on a speeding bus that didn’t care about my life
Didn’t care about just how easy it would have been to take the life of everyone on the bus
And maybe the lives of innocent bystanders on foot or in cars
Why does anyone carrying passengers think it’s OK to speed
Is time so much more important than life
I know that keeping schedules are important but not more important than the safety of those you transport
I wish for not having to fear riding on buses
But I do fear riding on buses
I’m almost certain I won’t ride a bus again anytime soon
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Speeding Buses©
Was written by
Felina Silver Robinson
This poem was written after witnessing three speeding buses today. It scares me to think of how many lives are put at risk every day due to careless driving.
