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...only nourished a proliferating vocabulary that threatens to outdate any dictionary of American slang within months; as well, it catalyzes an egalitarian, anti-authoritarian philosophy that has never been expressed in this fashion before. In the TV series Movin' On, hit records like C.W. McCall's Convoy (which sold 5 million copies and is to be made into a film) and the movie White Line Fever -all of them CB oriented-the good guys v. the cops is a basic theme...
Carter press secretary Jody Powell said that yesterday was Carter's last day of campaigning in the Bay State, and there were no plans to return Tuesday night. After the Faneuil Hall speech the Carter campaign convoy made a brief but high-in-symbolic-content visit to Salem before taking off for the South from Logan Airport...
...rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage in a six-car caravan made a trip to the coastal city of Limón, whose officials were courting a Vesco investment. After entering the driveway of a popular country restaurant, the convoy suddenly pulled out and sped away. Someone had spotted the American ambassador's car parked out front...
Same Questions. Between April and August, the group was moved four times, ultimately being taken by truck up to North Viet Nam. During the journey through the South, their small convoy passed a group of children who shouted excitedly: "The Americans are back! The Americans are back!" Inside North Viet Nam, the missionaries were interned at Son Tay Camp, near Hanoi, which was the target of an abortive raid to release U.S. military prisoners in 1970 (they had been moved elsewhere just before the raid...
...first trouble encountered by the barges since they left Puget Sound in July for the 3,500-mile voyage. Of the 47 vessels in the original convoy-the largest in peacetime maritime history-ten made it through to Prudhoe. Another 19 turned back for southern Alaska ports: they encountered the worst ice conditions in 77 years. One barge was beached and is being repaired. The 15 that turned back last week contained, among other items, modular buildings, without which oil production cannot begin...