Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of youths clutched the corners of a Dominican flag and raced through the streets, shouting "Liberty by Christmas!" They did not have that long to wait. For the crowds that gathered excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family. Would he ever return to the Dominican Republic? Generalissimo...
...weeks ago, the intersection at Berlin's "Checkpoint Charlie" was taut with tension as the U.S.-on order from General Lucius Clay, President Kennedy's representative in West Berlin-sent armed convoys across the border to escort civilian-dressed military personnel into the Russian sector to demonstrate U.S. right of access. But last week, on direct orders from the State Department, the probes were called off. At the same time, Washington stopped U.S. patrols along the 110-mile Autobahn that links West Germany with the divided city. Reason: Secretary of State Dean Rusk was anxious to shift...
...afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office can see it. She's delighted to keep an eye on it." A motorcycle cop once gave Sweater Designer Pamela Colin a personal escort as she wove through dense traffic with boxes of sweaters strapped to her baggage rack. George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes. And Textile Designer George Roper takes his bike up in the elevator of his office building...
Next day, Kennedy felt chipper enough to indulge in a campaign practice that few American politicians abroad seem able to resist: shaking hands with the natives. Twice during his tours Kennedy darted away from his police escort to mingle with startled Parisians, giving them his smiling, low-keyed greeting: "How are you? Good to see you." But there was not much time for that sort of thing: his tightly scheduled day was jammed with both cerebration and ceremony...
...turn, Paris turned itself inside out for Jackie Kennedy. An escort of plumed horsemen clattered alongside her limousine as it drew up to the palace, and white-stockinged footmen, right out of a Mozart opera, lined the stairs. In the Chambre de la Reine, Jackie slept in a bed just vacated by Belgium's Queen Fabiola, bathed in a silver mosaic tub that had been installed for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and gazed up at a ceiling swarming with Napoleonic cherubs. At the first formal reception, more than 2,000 top-ranking Parisians sloshed through the rainy night...