Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange caravan stopped in Beirut last week to refresh itself after eight long months on the road. On July 11, a party of 101 Americans had moved out of Cape Town in a wagon train of 41 aluminum trailers and 41 pastel-colored trucks. They had zigzagged over desert, through jungle and swamp, and it was obvious that where-ever they went, the natives-the black miners of the South, the willowy Watutsis, the squat Pygmies, the haughty Moslems of the North-had never seen anything quite like them. The adults among the travelers were all retired, and their ages...
...tries to show a bit too much good will to varied hosts. In segregated South Africa, the Natal Daily News gleefully quoted his observation that "Americans are not critical of your color policies." And last week, when informed that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan would issue visas to the caravan only if no Jews were along, Wally airily replied: "We have it in black and white that there is not a single one in the whole group...
...trailers, fitted with kitchen, shower, radio, window screens, flush toilet, are as comfortable as Miami bungalows. But the life is not. On the very first day out of Cape Town, one trailer landed in a ditch, and seven dropped out later. Along one rugged wasteland in southern Ethiopia the caravan lost 22 truck axles, and the passengers had to clear the trails themselves. ("Drive a mile," said one lady's diary, "work two hours on the road . . . Everyone very tired...
...Charles de Gaulle cried "Hurrah for France!" and cabled ecstatically: "Since this morning she is prouder and stronger!" Proud French officials said that weather conditions had been almost ideal in the red rock and sand testing area of Reggan, some 750 miles southwest of Algiers, lying near an ancient caravan route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Niger River...
...Goliath Slingshot Galleries. But, say the promoters, "above all else, Bible Storyland will be a happy place." One of the gayer rides will take paid customers to heaven -in a gold litter drawn by a team of cherubs. From the air, the "Shrine of Faith Plaza," Ur and the caravan route will be laid out to "form the cross of Jesus Christ...