Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week residents of Malvern, Ark. (pop. 5,290) were startled out of their swivel chairs and veranda rockers by the unaccustomed blaring of a sound jeep rolling down Main Street. Right behind came a caravan of 30 bright orange school buses and eight heavily loaded trucks and trailers. Posters plastered on the buses said: Watch Arkansas Climb the Ladder of Education...
Other signs informed Malvernites that the Arkansas Education Caravan had arrived to show them how to have better local schools. A caravan crew of 30 piled from the buses, began filling schoolrooms with up-to-date equipment, setting up shining new swings and jungle gyms in dusty playgrounds. In the next twelve hours, local educators and laymen got a whirlwind course in modern educational improvements...
Sullen, glint-eyed men collected in murmuring knots in the dusty, farm-town streets. Soon, the small angry knots had. become one 125-man mob pulling up at the Tavares courthouse in a 20-car caravan. Most of the mob stayed behind while its leaders walked up the steps to talk with big, easygoing Sheriff Willis McCall. "Willis," said one,"we want them niggers...
...with his shy, devotional manner. The lights went down; a solemn hush spread over the joint. With Charlie Barnet's big brass backing him, Eckstine gave them Somehow, in big, rich tones (he sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River to twice the length of the Mississippi, but the audience ate up every mile...
This is the third in a series of four articles on Harvard's scientists and what they are doing. It covers the Geology and Astronomy Departments. system; meters, comets, and dust. A caravan of trucks--"Whipple's Wagon Train"--is now touring the Southwest, snapping pictures of meteors every night to discover their evolution and habits...