Word: caravaneers
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...films are being brought to Harvard by Dr. Onderdonk, a former instructor in architecture at the University of Michigan, who has equipped an automobile with all the apparatus necessary for showing the pictures and is now touring the country with his outfit, which he terms "Peace Caravan...
...comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees to it that they go in different directions. But luckily for the caravan, Emmet rejoins them later, guides them on their terrible journey through the mountains. In a hopeless attempt to save some who have been left behind. Emmet is frozen to death. Though Celeste makes no secret of the fact that she is carrying his child, her mother is reconciled: her trip...
...raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan to Lhasa...
...first expedition, which had as its goal the Forbidden City of Lhasa, started in 1896. Over 16,000-ft. mountain passes, in bitter sub-zero weather, he led his dwindling caravan where no white men had ever been before; for 55 days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin...
...Shah Riza spent the closing hours of his visit to Istanbul last week with Turkish generals bent over staff maps showing the new strategic motor roads and railways of Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy trucking and carry Persian carpets...