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...Washington Square United Methodist Church, which had offered sanctuary to Draft Resister Donald C. Baty. Two Rhode Island draft evaders holed up for four days in Providence's Unitarian Church of the Mediator this month, before police moved in and arrested them. Boston's venerable Arlington Street Unitarian Universalist Church has twice offered similar haven, and three San Francisco churches-one Presbyterian, one Methodist and one Episcopal-have opened their doors to civil disobedients. This year's general assembly of the Unitarian-Universalist Association called on all its churches to offer war resisters "symbolic sanctuary...
...least, Ethel Kennedy remained gallantly cheerful. Even when parades of strangers appeared at the McLean, Va., estate to pay their respects, Ethel talked to them all. Almost daily, accompanied by her son Joe, 15, and often by two or three other older children, she visited the grave at Arlington, knelt, prayed, then returned to their 15-room house still radiating youthful life...
...Arlington. The Battle Hymn of the Republic, that fierce old war song chanted tenderly by Andy Williams at the end of the funeral, was to be heard again and again during the afternoon as the special 21-car train bore the Senator and his family and his friends south to Washington. There were crowds and choirs at many of the communities along the right-of-way, more tears and dirges?and there was still more death. Two waiting mourners at Elizabeth, N.J., were killed by a train roaring in the other direction...
Long after nightfall, it arrived in Washington. Along the lamplit streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps...
Closing the Deal. So effective has Realtron been that it has been adopted by the real estate board of Fairfax and Arlington counties in Virginia to list some 1,800 houses in that area. What a timesaver it can be was demonstrated by U.S. Army Major Ronald Dubois, a Viet Nam veteran, who was assigned to the Pentagon. After following up several leads only to have his hopes dashed, he consulted Falls Church, Va., Broker Reba Gardner. She put their problem to Realtron...