Word: safaried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge and grabbed it. As chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, Mike Monroney ran the report through his committee and got legislation moving. With single-minded disregard for political pitfalls and bureaucratic bear traps, Monroney thrashed his way through the congressional jungle with expert leadership. One member of his safari: Pete Quesada, whose good World War II friend and commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had just named him Special Assistant for Aviation...
...conversions following every sermon," wrote Africa's famed Christian trail blazer, David Livingstone. "We prepare the way for them." If he had returned to his Dark Continent last week, Missionary Livingstone might have thought that his prophecy was coming true; Evangelist Billy Graham had begun a seven-week "safari for souls" through Africa, and was using methods to attract "decisions for Christ" that would have astonished the dedicated Scot...
Evangelist Graham's safari began at Monrovia, capital of Liberia, where he was welcomed by Vice President William Tolbert, acting as "crusade chairman" in Liberia. Said President William V. S. Tubman : "We expect the souls of people here to be watered, refreshed and blessed...
...Kenya has something new in jungle sumptuousness. When his jet plane touches down in Nairobi, he is met by a brace of Rolls-Royces with zebra-skin upholstery. The cars whisk 125 miles north across Kikuyu country and draw up before the lush green lawns of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. Stretching away to either side are bamboo forests where roam the elephant and rhinoceros. Above towers snow-clad Mount Kenya, soaring 17,040 ft. into the equatorial sky. At sunset, guests are thrilled by the throb of tribal drums in the gloaming. (Since natives were lacking...
Mount Kenya Safari Club quietly opened last week, Ryan was insisting that each member could be completely certain that every other member was a "gentleman." Initiation fees are $500 for Americans (500 shillings for Britons because they are "poorer"), plus a yearly subscription of $60. Current membership includes Sir Winston Churchill, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, and the ninth Earl of Portsmouth; U.S. Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson, Everett M. Dirksen and John McCormack, and a clutch of film notables ranging from Clark Gable and John Wayne to Joan Crawford and Walt Disney. There are also a lot of nameless people...