Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular caravan of buses lined Quincy St. yesterday morning to great the rain-soaked reunioners who were hoping to ride off to sun and fun at the Essex County Club at Manchester. For those whose hopes weren't entirely annihilated by the early morning rains, were certainly was fun, but the sun never appeared...
...most pressing problem facing Iran, said the Shah, was to "catch up with the most progressive caravan of world civilization." Though he said Iran now has one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East, individual incomes still average only $165 a year. By drastic economic programs, the Shah wants to raise incomes until in "the next 20 years, they should compete with the advanced countries of Europe." Again and again he said that there is no pride in being ruler of a poor country...
...West, the situation had its divisive ironies. At Washington's orders, a caravan of giant U.S. Air Force Globe-masters was busy hauling Swedish, Indian and Ethiopian soldiers to the U.N. garrison at Elisabethville, there to fight Belgians, Frenchmen and Britons serving with the Katanga forces. The NATO allies, sorely split over the U.N. intervention, discussed a solution for hours at their Paris conference. They were really discussing the fate of one man-Katanga's Moise Tshombe, the crafty, flamboyant black leader who had taken his copperrich province out of the Congo and called it a nation...
...Manuel Tavárez-flew in from San Juan. They found the road from airport to city a sea of celebrators, flinging flowers, weeping, clapping hands, tooting whistles. At the bridge that forms the main entrance to the city, more than 100,000 people joyfully stopped the caravan...
...pretty, olive-skinned girl named Ida Nettleship, and soon the two set off for Liverpool. There John befriended a scholar whose odd specialty was the gypsy. John became so fascinated by the subject that eventually he, his wife and infant son were wandering about the British Isles in a caravan. The travels lasted through the births of three more boys, ended when the family moved to Paris, where Ida died suddenly after the birth of a fifth. The next year John married again, and in time four more children were born. The family lived in France for a while, then...