Word: caravaners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Volpe campaign caravan has circled through the state since January, spiralling ever closer to Boston. By this week--as he barnstormed through Lawrence, Lowell, Westford, and Malden--Volpe the campaigner had become a distillation of Volpe...
...motel and restaurant owners convict Manucy & Co. The owners told of being picketed by whites carrying such intimidating signs as "Niggers Eat Here. Would You?" Many reported anonymous phone calls: "You're not gonna make it home if you keep serving them." Eddy Mussallem of the Caravan Motel said he called everybody from the sheriff to the state police, only to be told that the pickets were doing nothing illegal. With unwitting irony, Tom Xynidis of the Sea Fair Restaurant told Judge Simpson that he was afraid of obeying...
...form the Congo's splintered factions into a "government of national reconciliation." The rousing welcome he received on his tour of Stanleyville (pop. 300,000) showed that Tshombe had succeeded in winning the approval of at least some of the city folks. "Vive Tshombe!" they screamed as his caravan swept through Stanleyville's five African communes. One man even shouted, "Vive le Roi!" At Goma, in rebellion-torn Kivu Central province, Congolese literally hung from the trees to hear Tshombe speak. "Black blood has been flowing like wild animals," he told them. "I say to you: Kazi, kazi...
...steadily while the Egyptian army band played a carefully rehearsed series of national anthems, most of which were unwritten five years ago. The entire Nile Hilton was turned over to the delegates, and Shepheard's bar was jammed. For nondrinking Moslems there was belly-dancing in the Tent Caravan Nightclub at the Hilton...
...York now has its pageant waggons too-set to perform everywhere from ye Bronx to ye Staten Island, and even before ye Bobby Wagner, the mayor. Belonging to Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, they are not quaint old tumbrels. They are a caravan of six trucks, led by a big, behemoth trailer truck that disassembles like a Chinese puzzle. In four hours, they collectively become a fully lighted, handsomely equipped Elizabethan theater. In addition to the free, summerlong Shakespeare that the festival group offers in its stationary theater in Central Park, the new road company is taking...