Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing a locomotive engineer's cap, Barry Goldwater took over the controls of his Whistle Stop Special in Logansport, Ind., guided the train on a brisk two-mile run down the line. That was about the only time Goldwater's campaign for the presidency seemed to be moving forward...
...Banda's order the leader of the rebels, ex-Education Minister Henry Masauko Chipembere, was restricted to a four-mile radius around his home in Malindi. Four other rebel ministers have reportedly fled the country. To rally his divided nation behind him, Banda set off on a whistle-stop campaign. In a speech at Lilongwe, 130 miles northwest of Zomba, Banda declared that he would neither resign nor die to please the rebels. "I am a man of God," Banda cried. "The God of the Christians and the Moslems is going to protect me, and I am going...
...interference whatsoever in anybody's affairs," said De Gaulle in Bolivia. He repeated it in Chile, after a restful two-clay sea voyage down the long coast to Valparaiso. From Chile, De Gaulle's Caravelle jet swept on across the Andes to Argentina and the seventh stop on his ten-nation tour. In Buenos Aires, internal politics reared its head when followers of ex-Dictator Juan Perón began cheering and chanting so loudly that they all but drowned out De Gaulle...
...President of the United States in any city is an extrordinary ceremony. The airport closes to all other planes about a half hour before he lands, or, if it is large enough, sets aside a huge area for the three planes which bring the Presidential party. At "very stop high school bands play "Hail to the Chief," "Hello, Lyndon," and "The Yellow Rose of Texas." By the end of the day, Lady Bird had been given about 100 yellow roses...
...wherever he goes live in a world all their own. They know each other well and speak their own peculiar abbreviations and jargon. As soon as the press plane takes off liquor flows freely from the substantial supply aboard at all times. When the plane touches down at each stop, the members of the press applaud gently in what has become almost a folk custom...