Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour (see p. 29). Great Britain and France took precautions all around the Mediterranean. In Malta, Enrico Mizzi, Nationalist leader of the Council of Government, and a Catholic Actionist named Herbert Ganado were interned. In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps. An evacuation caravan took civilians away from Menton on the French-Italian frontier, prepared to evacuate Monte Carlo next...
...first industrial patron by launching a 17-minute production called A Thousand Times Neigh. A free show, performed twelve times a day in a plushy new $500,000 theatre in the Ford building, the ballet is done (in shifts) by 42 dancers recruited from the American Ballet Caravan of tall, intense Balletomane Lincoln Kirstein...
...Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often on the toes of their ballet slippers. The music of NBC Staff Composer Tom Bennett, canned on a sound track for the first time in ballet, accompanies them tunefully, if not with great distinction...
...Wandering Lake. In 1933 Sweden's famed Explorer Sven Hedin was hired by the Chinese Government to explore the Silk Road, ancient caravan route of Marco Polo fame. Purpose: to build a motor highway connecting Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) with Soviet Russia. (Completed in 1938, this 2,000-mile highway soon became one of China's two last links with the outside world.) The Wandering Lake is Sven Hedin's third book to result from that 1933-35 expedition (others: The Flight of the Big Horse, The Silk Road...
...January reached the highest figure for any month since January 1931 (TIME, Feb. 19). Germany has been boasting about Russia not only as an inexhaustible source of materials, but also a conveyor of supplies from elsewhere, over the Trans-Siberian Railroad, even over the Old Silk Road and other caravan trails...