Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference will conclude with a bus caravan to Manchester, N.H., where the students will put into practice the skills they learned at the conference, Frishberg said...
Bury Me Standing is written with compelling passion and aphoristic grace, though its narrative of Gypsy history is unfortunately strewn through several chapters (perhaps the author felt that this scattershot approach was appropriate for a people whose tragic story is as meandering as the trail of a caravan). Fonseca certainly succeeds in her effort to draw attention to these often invisible people. She ends by noting that an emerging Gypsy elite has entered mainstream politics in Europe. Self-assertion, these leaders believe, is essential for Gypsy survival. Ironically, many whom they seek to help consider them traitors for abandoning...
DIED. JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, 89, newscaster turned pitchman; in Sarasota, Florida. Swayze found fame in 1949 "hopscotching the world for headlines" on Camel News Caravan, a network-news prototype. The Kansan later attained pop icondom hawking Timex watches, the ones that would "take a licking and keep on ticking...
...spirit him out of the city to Tan Son Nhut. Snepp, who went along on the ride, half expected Thieu and his American escorts to be hauled out of their cars and shot at some checkpoint by ARVN soldiers incensed at being abandoned. Nothing happened, but the little caravan took the precaution of racing onto the air base with lights out and braking to a skidding stop alongside a runway. Thieu was bundled up a ramp and into a waiting plane with the briefest goodbye...
...Creative Management agency, "the audience has to be expanded very rapidly. So we have to squeeze the Chinese, get them to sign on. Add India, Southeast Asia, Latin America. And if you are going to spend the money to develop those markets, you'd better go with a full caravan. You can't be like Marco Polo and say, 'Oh, you like silk, do you? Well, we left that behind. We'll go back and get some and see you in a couple years.' No, you've got to be an all-encompassing media company. And, for that, you need...