Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmth of his welcome was an indication, he might be able to get the job. With Wife Lady Bird and Daughter Lynda Bird, 18, the Vice President swept down Eisenhower Boulevard, so named after Ike's 1959 visit. Three times Johnson confused his smartly uniformed police escort by halting the motorcade and hopping out of his car to grasp all the outstretched hands within reach (one observer counted 300 in five minutes). The crowds responded with the highest praise they knew: "Javid Shah!" (Long live the King...
...Escort Question. The rioting finally petered out after heavily reinforced police had put a moat of barbed wire around Checkpoint Charlie and arrested 128 troublemakers. The Soviet guard faced trouble of a different sort when its commander announced that it was going to drive to the war memorial in three armored personnel carriers, which by tacit agreement between U.S. and Soviet commandants enter each other's sector only if they do not display arms. When the Soviet guard showed up with submachine-gun-toting soldiers standing on the sides of the vehicles, General Watson insisted that they climb inside...
...Jackie whizzed out into the choppy bay behind an Italian navy speedboat, holding Caroline on the water skis ahead of her. It was great sport for 100 yards-until mother and daughter nosedived into the water. An afternoon's outing to swim at a public beach drew an escort of a navy cutter and two police launches, which tried futilely to keep the omnipresent photographers at a distance. "We have never failed." trumpeted the leader of the long-lensed paparazzi pack; and Jackie graciously consented to pose, hoping they would take it a little easier in the future...
...feet, the 65-year-old sometime M.P. mounted an open truck amid a hail of rotten fruit and heavy English pennies (which were seldom so wasted in Depression days). Before he could open the meeting, the brawl was on. Within minutes, Mosley was led away under heavy police escort, while grim-faced bobbies arrested...
...London, but British judges were unmoved by his plea of illness and persecution. Britain's Home Secretary told Parliament: "Dr. Soblen is a fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country whose life is based on democratic institutions and constitutional guarantees." Waiting to escort the spy the rest of the way home were two U.S. marshals, and the Justice Department made ready a bed in the Springfield, Mo., Medical Center for Federal Prisoners...