Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosophy in the Rain. At midweek, Nehru collected an escort of Indian M.P.s and flew in an air force Dakota (DC-3) over the flood-devastated provinces of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. Hundreds had drowned; scores of thousands were homeless in an area almost the size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills...
...October congressional elections, the new President settled down to run the government with a new, informal touch. The hard-faced bodyguards of Vargas days vanished. Spurning the luxurious palace quarters, Café Filho continued to live in his three-bedroom Copacabana apartment. When the usual motorcycle fleet arrived to escort him on his first morning's drive to the palace, he ordered the escort abolished. At least once in the first week he dashed home, stripped off coat and tie, and lunched in comfort with his wife and son Eduardo, 11. He some times likes to relax with...
...pixilated (their advice to him: go home), and for a while it seemed as if they were right. Six times the tide came in and washed away Canipe's causeway. But on the seventh try the sandy road held fast, and soon the two 'dozers and an escort of trucks were moving down to the "Baboon" and hauling away the cargo. To get the heaviest parts of the cargo ashore, Canipe buried huge steel plates deep in the beach, hooked cables to them and easily slid the unwieldy factory parts ashore, above the high-water mark...
...barnacles grow. Last week, out from a Kiel shipyard for a trial run with Onassis on board sailed his new yacht, probably the fanciest private ship afloat. Called the Christina (after his wife), Onassis' floating palace is a 1,445-ton, 303-ft. Canadian destroyer escort (Stormont) rebuilt into a yacht at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. In the afterdeck is a marble swimming pool, with a mosaic floor that can be raised for dancing. In the lounge is a huge fireplace of ornamental lapis lazuli, while in the cozy barroom, decorated as an old sailor...
Seniors, their guests, dates, and parents will leave Lamont Library at 8 p.m. for the annual cruise on the S.S. Boston Belle. Accompanied by a special motorcycle escort provided by the local police, the buses will proceed to the Belle's pier for an evening of water-bound wining and dancing...