Word: jeeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck and a jeep full of pith-helmeted cops armed with rifles and Sten guns rolled up to Tegucigalpa's central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed...
...Oliver Springs. 15 miles west of Clinton, members of the mob elbowed their way through shoulder-to-shoulder guardsmen and leaped at newsmen. The chief danger was to photographers and newsreel men, whose equipment made them conspicuous and vulnerable. While LIFE Photographer Robert W. Kelley was atop a jeep photographing the clash at Oliver Springs, five men, three of them carrying shotguns, advanced on him. Leaping to the ground to escape them, he broke his left leg. In the same melee, Nashville Tennessean Photographer Jack Corn had a shotgun shoved into his stomach and barely managed to hang onto...
Amnesty Offer. Six days after E.O.K.A.'s truce offer, soldierly Sir John Harding made his response: leaflets scattered by jeep and plane offering amnesty to all E.O.K.A. men who would lay down their arms and surrender. Harding's terms: any terrorist who surrendered within three weeks was free to renounce British citizenship and emigrate to Greece; those who chose to remain in Cyprus must stand trial for any physical violence they had committed. All other crimes would be for given, but all E.O.K.A. members who stayed in Cyprus would be held prisoner "until released either by the ending...
...East China Sea. Between him and his goal there are now only 3,100 relatively calm miles of the north Pacific and a 6,000-mile overland trip across Alaska, Canada and the U.S. If his luck holds, he is sure to become the first man ever to jeep around the world. Looking back on his adventure, Carlin figures he is also sure to be the last...
Monsoons in Calcutta. The steering gear broke down and had to be replaced. The sun beating through the window of the jeep turned it into a galloping greenhouse. "I got her livable," says Carlin, "at the cost of chronic bronchitis. A port with an air scoop played a jet of air into my left...