Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doggedly on schedule, the caravan started off to take Britain's Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to New Canaan, Conn., for lunch, when all of a sudden the royal Rolls pulled off to the side of the road. Meg had had it for a while, decided to return alone to Publisher John Hay Whitney's Manhasset estate to get some rest. She needed it. In the next two days she and Tony slogged through rainy Manhattan shopping tours before the last farewell blast, an "American kitchen party" at the Four Seasons restaurant. Next day, "very sad" and very...
...Election Day the President and Lady Bird arrived at Johnson City's one-story stone Pedernales Electric Cooperative Building to vote. They cast ballots 1 and 2. Then, with the President at the wheel of a white Chrysler station wagon, they led a 20-car caravan of reporters and Secret Service men on a jouncing, 51-mile, four-hour ramble over the Johnson "propity...
...mountain flowers are purple underfoot. Yellow lichens and red moss brighten in the morning sun, and the heavy granite block retaining wall of the caravan road to Natu Pass curves in gentle arcs up to the ridge line that forms a natural border between Sikkim and Tibet. Just over the top of this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have...
...Billion Indemnity. A bomb scare delayed his flight from San Juan for an hour while the chartered airliner was searched. When Bosch arrived in Santo Domingo, a few scattered shots greeted his caravan as it sped from the airport into the old rebel zone of the city; no one was hit. Then before 60,000 screaming supporters, he began to speak again-and to "channel," as he said, "the capacity of the people." Cried Bosch: "The next President must take a suit before the World Court in The Hague, asking $1 billion in damages from the U.S., so the interventions...
Still other reports tell of an unsuccessful ambush of a Castro motor caravan in Pinar del Rio province, and a bomb planted at a Cuban power plant where Castro was scheduled to talk...