Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Polite Police. At the Mississippi line a similar escort, but with fixed bayonets, picked up the caravan for the trip to Jackson. Someone hurled a rock at the bus, but most of the spectators just stared, took pictures, or waved derisively...
...arranged by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Union of Soviet Journalists on an exchange basis (a U.S. press group will go to Russia this summer). The only role played by the U.S. Department of State was to permit the visit. And the travelers' only escort was Reporter Salisbury, who was nominated by the A.S.N.E. because he spent five years in Russia (1949-54) as the Times's Moscow correspondent and speaks Russian...
...Escort Salisbury is confident that the Russian journalists took something much more important than their souvenirs back to Moscow. "It's like a tire picking up bits of gravel in the tread," said he. "But in this case, the gravel is not going to work its way out. It's going to work in deeper and deeper. And that's going to remain a problem for these men all the rest of their lives...
...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...
...Harding," a playboy-adventurer who touched glasses with kings and brushed elbows with death, the best-dressed man on five continents and a dozen battlefields, an image of masculine beauty who sat as Charles Dana Gibson's model for the beau idéal of the day: the escort of the famed Gibson girl...