Word: caravaners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brass Bottle. "This is not Baghdad, it's Pasadena!" croaks Tony Randall as a camel caravan approaches his front lawn. From the antique urn that he bought for a gift, he has uncorked a fat green djinni, waiting to get out and wield magic. Randall's djinni happens to be Burl Ives, who complicates a routine romantic farce by conjuring up slaves, seneschals, dromedaries, elephants, a shapely blue djinniyeh (Kamala Devi) and a tonic belly dancer (LuLu Porter). Soon, of course, Randall has to explain all the whimsical phenomena to his fiancée, Barbara Eden. This chore...
...caravan inched along. Cops' motorcycles overheated. Lyndon leaped up on the Secret Service's open car. He pulled Lady Bird up with him and cried to the multitude, "Meet the lady of my life!" Again, in front of Holy Angels parish school, he grabbed a bullhorn and, paraphrasing John Kennedy, he shouted to a cluster of kids: "Ask not what we can do for you, but what you can do for your country...
...full, and the fish are flopping." To prove it, he hopped into his Continental to play tour guide, invited in four reporters, including Hearst's pretty blonde Marianne Means and two other newswomen. More reporters and photographers scrambled into five other Johnson-owned vehicles, and the whole caravan jounced at high speeds across a pasture, zigzagging around dung mounds and clusters of fat white-faced cattle...
Every morning last week the President left his French-style chateau, The Elms, at 8 o'clock, usually did not return until nearly midnight. Saturday morning he even took a brisk, 10-min-ute walk through his northwest Washington neighborhood before setting out for work, had a caravan of curious reporters and wary Secret Service men quickstepping with...
...dusty land, every source of water is sure to attract settlers. He also followed the trails of modern Bedouins. "The coun try has not changed," he says, "so they still use the same paths that were followed in ancient times." He kept asking himself how they lived. "Were there caravan routes going through? You have to have a good reason for each settlement...