Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waited, a tall old man, whose face is a graven image, strode down the 53 steps leading from his villa to the street. The policemen's iron heels clicked in unison and the old man, with no smile, lowered himself into the cushions of the big Mercedes. The convoy moved off, purring through vineyards and pine woods until it came to the Autobahn and merged with the traffic flowing towards the Ruhr...
...last region of the islands where the Huks are still strong. A limousine with six bodyguards led the way; a jeepload of Manila police guarded the rear. Peasants, alerted that Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh) was coming, waved and grinned from beneath their huge dripping salakots (hats). As the convoy sloshed into Manalin, a public address system blared the catchy Magsaysay Mambo: "Mambo, Mambo, Magsaysay,/ Our democracy will die,/ If there is no Magsaysay...
After his repeat performance at the Waldorf, the President followed his Secret Service convoy to Pennsylvania Station. The presidential train pulled out shortly after midnight, spent part of the night at a quiet siding in New Jersey, pulled into Washington's Union Station at 7:30 a.m. Ike's first White House appointment of the day was scheduled...
Penknife Surgery. Pfc. Tully Cox of Altoona, Ala. was only 17 years old when the Reds shot him in both legs, then captured him, one day late in 1950. He was one of 20 men guarding a 40-truck convoy carrying some 800 U.S. wounded toward Hamhung. "The Chinese climbed up on the trucks," he said, "and sprayed burp guns into the wounded. Then they bayoneted them. The wounded were screaming. They couldn't do anything." Pfc. Cox assumed that most of them died. There were no medics at the first P.W. camp he went to. so two buddies...
...traveled on a 720-ton ex-Italian minelayer, now the Yugoslav training ship Galeb (Seagull). The royal welcome began in the Sicilian Channel, where the British destroyers Chieftain and Chevron steamed up to convoy the dictator. At Gibraltar three more British destroyers and three aircraft carriers joined up, cannon booming, and 60 planes roared past in a "flyover" (three crashed, killing four officers...