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Green Carpet. The rumble of motors was heard up the valley. The Assam Rifles came smartly to attention, and newsmen and photographers scrambled to positions in the muck as a caravan of jeeps and trucks came into sight. In the van was a station wagon that pulled up in the muddy street before a carpet of 35 green tarpaulin ground sheets leading to a thatch-roofed rest cottage...
...caravan of four limousines, two buses and two baggage trucks, will transport most of the party to the Statler Hilton, where an entire floor is reserved for the night. At 6:25 the party will leave the hotel for a reception and dinner at the Faculty Club...
Night had settled upon the roof of the world. With a jingling of harness and the clipclop of hooves, a small caravan wound slowly up the 17,000-ft. pass. Ahead lay the snowy summits of the Himalayas, an ocean of wind-whipped peaks and ranges that have served Tibet as a rampart since time began. Cavalrymen with slung rifles spurred forward; state officials in furs, wearing the dangling turquoise earrings of their rank, sat tiredly in the saddle; rangy muleteers in peaked caps with big earlaps goaded the baggage train up the steep path. As they passed a cairn...
...farm that he has never worked, at the unruly weeds that he lets grow. An alert, clear-eyed man who looks 20 years younger than his age, Hodgson has no time for such practical things ("Time, you old gypsy man, / Will you not stay, / Put up your caravan / Just for one day?"). Says he in his musing, friendly tone: "What we have to consider is the brevity of life." His real work is wonder about the energy of anything that grows, moves, breathes or flies: "I don't try to reconcile anything. It's a damned strange world...
...some postwar U.S. products and from the fact that Russia's achievements in rocketry have created doubts about U.S. technological preeminence. German traders have also won an enviable reputation for fast delivery. Last summer when Saudi Arabia's King Saud decided he needed a three-truck caravan (sleeper with bath, dining car with throne, and a supply van), British and French firms told him he would have to wait six months. West Germany's Daimler-Benz, teaming up with a specialty body firm, did the job in seven weeks...