Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time city police arrived, however, the band had returned to its buses, and was ready to leave. Nine prowl cars and about 15 patrolmen halted the caravan and, with police aboard, the buses were taken to a nearby precinct station house, where Strauss was booked as responsible since he is band leader, and Upton was charged as a token representative of the group...
...protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into retreat (TIME, April 27). Occasionally the British rifles would scare off a caravan, occasionally one would get through to bring food to the Saudi Arabians...
...recently somebody started shooting in earnest, and both sides admitted last week that there have been several small but nasty battles. The Saudi Arabians blamed the British, reported several casualties on their side, hinted they might throw the debate into the United Nations. The British insisted that Arabian caravan guards had started the shooting. The U.S., caught in the middle as a "third party" mediator between its British allies and its oil-owning Saudi Arabian business partners, had another small but serious trouble spot on its hands...
...Silly." Everything, including Nevada's courts, ran close to schedule. First, Crooner Haymes led a caravan of newsmen to the Las Vegas court, where in seven minutes flat he got a divorce from his third wife. ex-Cigarette Girl Nora Eddington, who had once been married to Errol Flynn. On the courthouse steps he responded to the command of a dozen photographers to "wave your decree," then set out to pick up his fiancee, trailed by newsmen and Pressagent Freeman, who kept booming out: "Is everybody happy?" At the license bureau, while Rita and Dick tried to sign papers...
IRAN Shock Treatment And lo! The phantom caravan has reach'd the nothing it set out from. -Omar Khayyam...