Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against some obstacles: hostile Indians, a stagecoach tycoon bent on thwarting the railroad, and the dispiriting fact that the road has run out of track in the 40-mile stretch between Epitaph and Dead Horse Point. With one reluctant paying passenger (Dan Dailey) firmly tied to the locomotive, a caravan headed by a sharpshooting lady peace officer (Anne Baxter) sets out to haul the engine by mule to the point where the track begins again. Among those along for the ride: Madame Adelaide and her dance-hall girls (who can dance...
Most of the College will be pulling out of Cambridge for home by Saturday, but in the midst of the general exodus one caravan of three automobiles will be heading south to open the varsity golf season. "Home" for the nine men in the cars during the vacation will be the field house at the University of North Carolina...
Before dawn one day last week, a caravan of 31 shiny new cars rolled out of Los Angeles, heading east. Each car was a standard 1950 model; every major U.S. make except Buick and Pontiac was represented. The cars had been tuned to perfection (but'not souped up), for a grueling two-day, 750-mile test to see which car got the most mileage and efficiency from its fuel...
...Yugoslav Parliament, Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj last week boasted: "Relations with the United States, Great Britain and France have been improved . . . The U.S.S.R. has said that no country can exist unless it is under the thumb of a hegemonistic power . . . We have proved it can . . . While dogs bark, the caravan passes...