Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football season watching the athletes and dreaming of some day being one of them. I was a voracious reader. I went to the public library about once a week and took out a couple of books. I went through all the books about Frank Merriwell at Yale and the Rover Boys-the college experience and the emphasis on dying for dear old Rutgers...
Three days later, however, Nkomo fled. After an all-night drive in a Land Rover along bush roads, he reached the border of Botswana, where he sought temporary refuge. At week's end, Nkomo flew by private chartered aircraft to Johannesburg, where he boarded a British Airways flight to London. There was no way of telling whether his exile would prove to be temporary or permanent. In Zimbabwe, the government detained his wife and three other members of his family. Later, authorities announced that Nkomo's wife had been released on unspecified "humanitarian grounds," although the other family...
...Lester Green, 45, a Protestant missionary, climbs out of his Land Rover near the village of Lolwa, deep inside the Ituri rainforest. In fluent Ki-Swahili, he asks where he might find the Walese Pygmy tribes. Soon a guide is hacking his way through the dense undergrowth. Green follows, Bible in hand...
...does the packing and often drives their Land Rover. One recent Sunday in the village of Kumkwane, members of the Bakwena tribe proudly presented 15 babies to be baptized by their esteemed guest. After the goats were cleared from the church, Merriweather preached, in impeccable Setswana, of God's love and read Scriptures translated into the local dialect by Robert Moffat, Livingstone's father-in-law. Meanwhile, Merriweather's wife taught Sunday school to the children...
...been little more than a month since the Rover 3500 driven by Princess Grace of Monaco plunged over the edge of the Moyenne Corniche, the mountain road near her home in Monte Carlo. During that time, Princess Stephanie, 17, has remained a virtual recluse. Last week the princess, moving rigidly in a neck brace, was glimpsed for the first time in public since the accident. Still suffering from a lesion of the seventh vertebra, she attended a memorial Mass for her mother. Though Stephanie had originally planned to begin a course in fashion design this fall in Paris, she will...