Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil, the "land of tomorrow," Sáo Paulo is the city of today. Last week in Sáo Paulo, Brazil's second city, a filling-station attendant watched a convoy of new trucks rolling down the highway to Rio, straight through a blinding tropical storm. Said he, with matter-of-fact pride: "Paulistas don't stop for anything." High in his 27-story skyscraper, a businessman explained judiciously: "We are Brazil. Without us, what would there...
...eyes of the U.S. focused last week on a frontier gate where the road from Red Hungary leads into Austria. In the chill, gathering dusk, a convoy of three black cars, their windows heavily curtained, pulled up on the road from Budapest. Four U.S. airmen, hemmed in by Red guards, stepped down from the autos. They were unshaved and shaggy-haired, tense and stiffly suspicious; their uniforms were rumpled and dirty. Then, out of the darkness, an American voice boomed at them: "Welcome to freedom...
...himself tour, Lyttelton sat behind a 2-in. cannon in a seven-ton armored car, one of a convoy of twelve. The road was lined with Gurkhas and police facing outward with bayoneted rifles held at the ready. Lyttelton seemed displeased by so much protection. But on the second day of his tour, a Communist guerrilla with a live grenade in his pocket was captured. After that, Lyttelton's guard was strengthened, his itinerary changed...
...paratroopers cut the Viet Minh communications wire, captured a Viet Minh convoy on its way northward with salt. But they found Hoa Binh burned-out and deserted. The only local inhabitant to meet them was pretty 25-year-old Nguyen Thi Ky. Her arms loaded with silver bracelets, her teeth painted an artistic black, she nervously approached the paratroopers, holding out an old laissez passer bearing General de Lattre's picture. When Nguyen Thi Ky explained that she had known a French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship...
...last month Kim and an older playmate, not satisfied with their haul of goodies and hoping for more, followed an allied convoy across the Panmunjom bridge. When a Red guard hastened up, the playmate fled but Kim was collared. For 19 days nothing was seen of him. His father informed U.N. officers that the boy had been abducted. The U.N. made representations to the Reds...