Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that, Negro marchers took to the streets in nearby Montgomery, a city whose mayor, Earl James, prefers to handle civil rights demonstrators without violence. Although Alabama's Governor Lurleen Wallace sent in National Guardsmen, Mayor James's police gave the Negroes an escort and thus precluded a direct confrontation. Released on $500 bail, Carmichael tried to whip up the mob with black-power speeches, but its members-mostly youngsters-only cheered a bit and sang a few songs, then broke up and went home...
Monro, who will leave Harvard for Miles College next week, was Mays's Faculty escort...
...only head of state among the guests, De Gaulle rated the most elaborate welcome at the airport, including a 21-gun salute, a bigger limousine, a larger motorcycle escort. Television cameras zeroed in on him, and Roman crowds shouted, "Viva De Gaulle!" As the guests and their Italian hosts walked from a ceremony in the Palazzo dei Conservatori through Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, the other European leaders and Eurocrats trailed behind le grand Charles like captive barbarians in one of Caesar's triumphal parades...
...only for a while. Some ships bearing goods to Israel have already sailed for Elath. If Nasser is adamant about turning back Israeli ships, the U.S. and Britain (both of which had naval task forces cruising in the Middle East last week) may have to decide whether to escort the ships and risk a major confrontation with Nasser in defense of the 1958 accord that declared the gulf to be international water; Russia also signed the accord...
Married. David Hamilton, 26, advertising copywriter and younger brother of Actor George Hamilton, Lynda Bird's favorite escort; and Helle Melchior, 20, comely Danish granddaughter of Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles...