Word: caravaneers
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...which the big-beat groups from the Beatles on down have fashioned their music. That the U.S. pop-music market so readily adopted the synthetic British translation of a purely American idiom made Brown see red. To promulgate "the real thing," he organized the James Brown Show, a barnstorming caravan of 40 singers, dancers and musicians. The message got through. On the road 340 days last year, he grossed more than $1,000,000, played to audiences of 11,000 in Los Angeles, 15,000 in Annapolis, Md., 27,000 in Atlanta...
Kennedy, then nearing the end of his successful candidacy for President, had just flown into Michigan from New York. As his motorcade made its way from the airport to Ann Arbor, it became evident that a large crowd of students had waited up to see and hear him. The caravan was greeted at the university by an audience estimated...
Over the centuries the debris of a dozen cultures has piled up alongside its ancient caravan routes. In 1500 B.C., the Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...
Doggedly on schedule, the caravan started off to take Britain's Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to New Canaan, Conn., for lunch, when all of a sudden the royal Rolls pulled off to the side of the road. Meg had had it for a while, decided to return alone to Publisher John Hay Whitney's Manhasset estate to get some rest. She needed it. In the next two days she and Tony slogged through rainy Manhattan shopping tours before the last farewell blast, an "American kitchen party" at the Four Seasons restaurant. Next day, "very sad" and very...
...Election Day the President and Lady Bird arrived at Johnson City's one-story stone Pedernales Electric Cooperative Building to vote. They cast ballots 1 and 2. Then, with the President at the wheel of a white Chrysler station wagon, they led a 20-car caravan of reporters and Secret Service men on a jouncing, 51-mile, four-hour ramble over the Johnson "propity...