Word: camels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tooling along a street in Karachi last May on his Asian whistle-stop tour, Vice President Lyndon Johnson spied one of Pakistan's prime tourist attractions: a camel cart. Lyndon stopped the car, got out to shake hands with startled Camel Driver Ahmad Bashir, 40. While the photographers snapped away, Johnson made small talk. "President Ayub Khan is coming to the U.S.," he offered. "Why don't you come too?" Bashir agreeably smiled "Sure, sure," went home to his mud-and-gunny-sack shack and forgot...
Johnson, who shook hands from Bangkok to New Delhi, drawling "Now you all come see me." went home and forgot it, too-until he read in Washington a translated press clipping from Pakistan's biggest daily newspaper, Jang, that "the U.S. Vice President has invited Bashir, a camel-cart driver, to come to America. My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He will go by jet and stay in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York." Faced with a féte accompli, Lyndon did the sporting thing: at a televised People-to-People luncheon, he suggested that it would...
...fewer than 450 newsmen were on hand at Cape Canaveral, along with a tangle of cameras, cables and vans set up for television's first "live" space shot. Marveled the U.S. Marine Corps' onlooking Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John Glenn: "They've got everything here but a camel and an elephant." The occasion: the launching, as an immediate prelude to the U.S.'s first actual man-in-space effort, of a "canned man" - in reality, a 40-lb. apparatus billed as being electronically able to "breathe, sweat and speak...
...covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army during World War II), Behr became well-acquainted with the secretive rebel leaders who run the war from Tunis, and with their enemies, the white settlers in Algeria. He and TIME...
Marriage Revealed. Richard J. Reynolds, 55, playboy heir to a $25 million tobacco (Camel cigarettes) fortune, onetime mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C., and current lord of Sapelo Island, a private domain off Georgia, who spent $10.1 million shedding his other wives; and Anne-marie Schmitt, 31, a pretty Ph.D. from Germany; he for the fourth time, she for the first; aboard a cruise ship in the South China Sea, March...