Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
Working for Support. On a six-day, 6,780-mile junket through seven western states, Harriman moved fast and campaigned hard. He ranged across Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada in a chartered DC-3. Before he turned homeward, he had made 14 speeches, held ten press conferences, worked a backbreaking 17-hour day that sapped staff members and newsmen. On the 64-year-old New Yorker, the crushing schedule seemed to work like a tonic...
...crowd was up and whooping an ovation. The only reason the audience let the orchestra quit after three encores was that it was time for the bullfights. The New Orleans musicians had left their musical mark on 22 cities and towns from Lima to Ciudad Trujillo before turning homeward last week. Verdict of a leading Mexican critic: "You have conquered Mexico...
...White House last week came Alberto Martin Artajo, Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, for a social call on the President and Mrs. Eisenhower. Artajo and aides were homeward bound from a week of inconclusive but encouraging exploration at the State Department on such topics as increased military and economic aid and U.S. sponsorship of Spanish membership in NATO...
...such, the meeting was successful. "It has been extremely nice," said St. Laurent, heading homeward. Mexico's Ruiz Cortines amplified that conclusion: "Because it was more human, also more genuine ... a new era in relations.'' The President of the U.S. bade goodbye to his guests: "May we do this again some time? I hope it was worthwhile...