Word: caravans
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...West, the situation had its divisive ironies. At Washington's orders, a caravan of giant U.S. Air Force Globe-masters was busy hauling Swedish, Indian and Ethiopian soldiers to the U.N. garrison at Elisabethville, there to fight Belgians, Frenchmen and Britons serving with the Katanga forces. The NATO allies, sorely split over the U.N. intervention, discussed a solution for hours at their Paris conference. They were really discussing the fate of one man-Katanga's Moise Tshombe, the crafty, flamboyant black leader who had taken his copperrich province out of the Congo and called it a nation...
...Manuel Tavárez-flew in from San Juan. They found the road from airport to city a sea of celebrators, flinging flowers, weeping, clapping hands, tooting whistles. At the bridge that forms the main entrance to the city, more than 100,000 people joyfully stopped the caravan...
...Gypsy Caravan. Augustus John was born in the Welsh seacoast town of Tenby, the son of the leading barrister in town. He discovered his talent for drawing early, at 18 entered the University of London's Slade School of Fine Art. He let his hair and beard grow, adopted whatever garb-flowing smocks, trailing scarves, bright bandannas-that seemed appropriate to a budding genius. Thus the legend of Augustus John began...
...pretty, olive-skinned girl named Ida Nettleship, and soon the two set off for Liverpool. There John befriended a scholar whose odd specialty was the gypsy. John became so fascinated by the subject that eventually he, his wife and infant son were wandering about the British Isles in a caravan. The travels lasted through the births of three more boys, ended when the family moved to Paris, where Ida died suddenly after the birth of a fifth. The next year John married again, and in time four more children were born. The family lived in France for a while, then...
...Blonde with Parrots. Experts pored over the empty butane-gas cylinder wrapped with 22 Ibs. of explosive that burned but did not bang, examined the site a half mile away where an accomplice had flashed his auto headlights to warn of the approach of the President's speeding caravan. Police guessed that the charge had been buried for days, failed to go off because rain had dampened its mechanism. Implicated in the plot was a ragtag crowd that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs...