Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scheduled for a month-long stay, the London Symphony is the first European orchestra to settle in a U.S. city for such an extended engagement. When they arrived two weeks ago-96 musicians, 43 wives and 36 children-they were met by a caravan of 40 cars and treated to a wee-hour spin across Daytona's famed beach. In the days since, it has been one continuous round of sun and surf-and great music...
...spring. Each year, as the snows melt in the lofty mountain passes along the border of northern Iraq, the sporadic, five-year-old guerrilla rebellion of Iraq's stubborn 1,500,000 Kurdish tribesmen flares up again-fueled by fresh weapons and ammunition lugged in by donkey caravan over the mountains from fellow Kurds in Iran...
...which the big-beat groups from the Beatles on down have fashioned their music. That the U.S. pop-music market so readily adopted the synthetic British translation of a purely American idiom made Brown see red. To promulgate "the real thing," he organized the James Brown Show, a barnstorming caravan of 40 singers, dancers and musicians. The message got through. On the road 340 days last year, he grossed more than $1,000,000, played to audiences of 11,000 in Los Angeles, 15,000 in Annapolis, Md., 27,000 in Atlanta...
Kennedy, then nearing the end of his successful candidacy for President, had just flown into Michigan from New York. As his motorcade made its way from the airport to Ann Arbor, it became evident that a large crowd of students had waited up to see and hear him. The caravan was greeted at the university by an audience estimated...
Over the centuries the debris of a dozen cultures has piled up alongside its ancient caravan routes. In 1500 B.C., the Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...