Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Presenting, from Baltimore, the 1968 edition of "the greatest show on earth," featuring an array of acrobats, trapeze artists, daredevils and clowns and a caravan of animal acts. And in the cen ter ring, Mike Douglas as host...
...days last week, Bobby and a caravan of 36 cars crammed with out-of-state reporters, committee staffers and electronic gear burned up the dirt-topped back roads of eastern Kentucky's poverty-blighted Wolfe, Breathitt, Knott, Harlan and Letcher counties, halting in hidden hollows at weather-bleached wood and tar-paper shanties sagging with neglect. And in spavined one-horse communities named Neon, Grassy Creek, Mousie, Fisty, Jackhorn and Cody, ragged, slack-eyed men and women and listless children with bellies taut from hunger spoke of their need...
...Governor of New York chose to promote Michigan's George Romney and wait upon events. If Rockefeller was to have any chance, it seemed until recently, the opportunity would come next summer. But gradually, as Romney's candidacy evaporates and Richard Nixon's solidifies, a Rockefeller caravan has formed up. Last week it was clearly visible, even though Rockefeller has yet to decide whether or when to join...
...stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle to dispatch-in two shots-a massive rogue elephant that was ravaging the crops. "There was a cause for destruction," he told his viewers. "But I'm not proud of killing this great beast." Then the caravan smoked great chunks of it over a makeshift barbecue...
...Vietnamese contingent. A hippie outfit calling itself Wagon Wheels East purportedly set out from California replete with Shoshone Indians, trail scouts and medicine men ("compliments of Chief Rolling Thunder"), plus "junk cars, stolen buses, motorcycles, rock bands, flower banners, dope, incense and enough food for the journey." A caravan organizer warned in the East Village Other, a New York underground biweekly: "The caravan will pass through some very hostile territory, and many will die on the trip." It survived...