Word: oxcarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essential and immediate problems susceptible of solution." As Royall talked, the delegates buzzed with surprise. "The speech had value in that it will create almost unanimous dissent," snapped a member of the state committee later. Royall's thinking on education, said another, was that "of the oxcart, not the jet plane, age." Mrs. Lillian Ashe, president of New York City's United Parents Associations, gave a shot of adrenalin to the stock solution: "The assumption that there is only a limited amount of money for education and that we must do the best we can within these limitations...
...Snows of Kilimanjaro) and a crew of 40 were sent to South Africa. There, harassed by "snakes, ticks and other insects," and "in the presence of lions," they shot the backgrounds for the picture. For one scene the studio hired 3,000 Zulu warriors, shipped them by plane and oxcart to the Valley of the Thousand Hills in Natal province, and there built a small city named "Zanuckville" to house them...
...Constellation, helicopter, limousine. jeep, tractor, oxcart and imperial coach, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon circled the globe. In ten speech-filled weeks he traveled 45,539 miles, visiting 19 Pacific and Asian lands, shaking thousands of hands. Last week Dick Nixon and his wife Pat returned to Washington...
...interests) and powerful, Chichi was content to stay in the background until this year. Then he put a trusted subordinate in command of the police and ran for President. His lively brunette wife Cecilia, known as "Ceci" to most Panamanians, stumped the country for him by plane, jeep, boat, oxcart, and on foot. "I never wanted to be President, but I have to do away with this anarchy," said Chichi...
Fabio and his grandfather had to hitch up the old oxcart to carry all the mail home. By last week, as the total climbed to more than 50,000 postcards, letters and packages, the nearest post office, 40 miles away in Volterra, had taken on an extra man just to handle Fabio's mail...