Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside, the secret service caravan revved up. Blue flashing lights whipped slowly atop wood-paneled Ford station wagons. Carter moved on to his next stop along this Atlantic Coast swing. Kennedy will be travelling with him, and chances are, whether in Brooklyn or Bayonne, the Carter road show will maintain its high level of technical excellence and flexibility. For the next two and a half weeks, barring a return of the hostages from Iran or unexpected Middle East settlements, Jimmy Carter will abandon the White House for the stage, the lights, the crowds. He will certainly need...
There may be protests about the nomadic existence of the candidates. But there is plainly something heady about swooping down through mountains or over prairies and hearing the blare of bands in tribute to the caravan. Anybody who has heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic for a rally has felt the stir. Reagan even seems to enjoy the campaign food. Unlike other candidates who only nibble, Reagan plows right...
...Room of the White House, which has managed to maintain its dignity through the drying laundry of the John Adams family, the gallons of lemonade poured by the abstemious Lucy Hayes and the baleful exit of Richard Nixon, witnessed another extraordinary event last week in the long and colorful caravan of presidential history...
Only one line stands out. As Russell leads a caravan of 250 used cars across the California desert, he realizes that he'll never make his deadline if he sticks to the speed limit. Turning and speaking through a megaphone to the high-school students driving his pack of cars, he prepares the kids for a history lesson. "This is how we used to drive," he yells, "at 75 miles per hour...
...elephantine expansion of their Saturday Night Live routine, expends that energy on simple aggression. Can't Stop the Music, which charts the fabled rise of the Village People, turns it into misdirected motion. Only Roadie powers itself like an eight-wheeled, diesel-fueled rock-'n'-roll caravan...