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...Stalin were placed. In sallow, impassive dignity, Stalin's body lay in the glare of spotlights, the huge grey head resting on a silken pillow, the chest of his simple, military tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier. Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino and Stalinabad and Stalinogrosk...
...heirs themselves-Premier Georgy Malenkov, Lavrenty Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich-stood the first honor watch at the bier. Then the huge doors were thrown open. For 60 hours, the men, women & children of Moscow marched in to gaze, in awe, in curiosity, or in grief, at the powerful little man so few had seen in life...
...team poll is conducted annually by Bob Bier, sports editor of the Colorade Springs Free Press, and selections are based on choices of "coaches from leading colleges...
Professor Modugno regained consciousness only long enough to forgive Giuseppe before he died. Huge bareheaded crowds turned out to watch while schoolboys carried the coffin through Rome's silent streets. At the professor's bier in the Piazza di Spagna, Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini spoke for all high-school teachers: "Be good, boys and girls, be good...
...cardinals will take the galero with them, but will never wear it. Ceremonially, it is used only once-when it rests on the cardinal's bier...