Word: caravane
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...keep an assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., across the river from Detroit, operating on two shifts with overtime until mid-July. The front-wheel-drive minivans combine efficient use of interior space, with room for as many as seven passengers, and easy handling. Chrysler's models, named Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, are 16.7 in. lower and 21 in. shorter than standard vans like the Dodge Ram Wagon. The smaller size and improved aerodynamics created by the minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy. The new models get 37 m.p.g. on the highway, compared with...
...practical romantic who sought the company of the great, both in his fantasies and in real life. He urged America to follow this youthful adventure of mind and body. That is why John Kennedy lives among us yet today. In death he found a place in the caravan of history's great whose thoughts and words he used, whose actions he revered...
...gunman through the Secret Service radiotelephone link. When Harris kept refusing to say a word to Reagan on the telephone, the President's security aides urged him to get into a heavily guarded limousine. Ten agents followed his limo in an open car, brandishing Uzi submachine guns. The caravan returned the President to Eisenhower Cabin, a white-columned six-bedroom house from which Ike, while President, had often played the pine-studded course...
...voters were registered since May, increasing black registration by about 11%. Aiding the effort were Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III, son of the slain civil rights leader. And, of course, Jesse Jackson, who staged a three-day barnstorming car caravan through the Delta country to spark a record black turnout in the primaries...
...contra plan had apparently been to catch our caravan in an ambush and drive us down the road, where another group was lying in wait to finish us off. Fortunately, the trap was sprung before the convoy was completely inside. As the blood-and dust-covered bodies were carried into the hospital for last rites, administered by the town priest, a Nicaraguan television crew trained its camera on the four Americans watching the scene. Our interpreter, a young woman, broke down in tears and said, "I hate what your Government is doing...