Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared weak and hesitant. It had tried three times to get Meredith registered; it had failed three times. Now it set out on a fourth attempt, and Attorney General Kennedy upped the escorting force level to two dozen marshals. Late in the week they set out in a motor caravan from the U.S. naval air station at Memphis, Tenn., 80 miles from Oxford. But Barnett, meanwhile, had also mustered stronger forces...
...warned him that the oncoming force of marshals was obviously insufficient to force its way without a fierce battle. "I'll call it off," said Bobby. He signaled an aide, who telephoned the Justice Department's Oxford command post, which in turn radioed instructions to the oncoming caravan: go back to Memphis. The cars were then 20 miles from Oxford...
...help from his father, pointed out that "if anything, I come from a dead dynasty." At the G.O.P.'s convention, Lodge won the party's endorsement on the first ballot. Campaigning against Curtis in last week's primary, Lodge barnstormed Massachusetts in a three-bus caravan, won by a vote...
...father bought him his first set of real drums only a few months ago, and though James is still too short to sit down behind them, he has already surpassed his father as a drummer. On his television debut he appeared with his mother to play Caravan, treated his listeners to a long solo break that sounded like Krupa. "He's a great little ham," said the station's delighted program director, who stole time from Lionel Hampton's band to make room for James...
...motorcade on a wild ride into downtown Algiers. Switching lanes with abandon and totally disregarding one-way street signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan reached the prefecture of the Provisional Government, overlooking Algiers' waterfront; carried inside on the shoulders of his joyous followers, Ben Bella met and shook hands with Algeria's vanquished and all-but-forgotten Premier, Benyoussef Benkheddathus−ending, at least for the moment, the new country's first...