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Last August a camel caravan lumbered into Buraimi bearing 40 Saudi officials, clerks and armed men headed by a doughty Arabian named Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan. They started wooing the bewildered inhabitants and chiefs with lavish feasts, silver riyals and sweet talk. Immediately, the Trucial Sheik of Abu Dhabi and the Sultan of Muscat appealed to their "protector" Great Britain to repel the "invaders...
This week, across the U.S., fresh-water fishermen from barefoot boy to caravan-equipped sportsmen were polishing spinners, varnishing rods, tying flies, oiling reels, patching creels. Some 20 million strong, they were prepared to spend $1 billion on gear, gasoline, guides and other expenses this year in the U.S.'s No. 1 participant sport. Some were already catching fish...
Miss Lord, a 17-year-old Medford High School senior, is currently touring local colleges and has appeared on Monroe's "Camel Caravan" radio show...
From all over the world, offers of help poured in to the flood victims. U.S. and British helicopters fluttered everywhere, picking refugees from the swirling waters. Many of the rescued were tied to the outside of the whirlybirds like packages on a gypsy caravan. From Britain, herself heavily stricken (300 dead), came boats, planes, and engineering supplies as well. In one day the R.A.F. flew in some 50,000 sandbags. U.S. motorized columns raced across Germany's Autobahnen into The Netherlands to lend a hand, while fleets of Flying Boxcars roared in laden with life rafts, serums, and other...
...from good enough. "They were ragged and individualistic, with no particular style because their dancers came from all over." He decided to start a school. Out of his School of American Ballet came the American Ballet Company, which danced at the Metropolitan Opera for three years, the touring Ballet Caravan (1936-41), then Ballet Society (1946-48), and finally the New York City Ballet...