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Jimmy lay in state in an orchid casket covered with a rose blanket. There was a canopy from the door of the funeral home to the sidewalk, some fading pink flowers in the yard. "They're dying out," said Mama. "But they're still kinda nice for Jimmy." Mama held off the burial for eight days, but finally gave in this week. Said she: "I ain't in no hurry to rush him into the ground. I kept him out just as long as they...
Actually the chief effect of the Hershey ruling on the Law School would be that blanket graduate deferment would no longer apply, and, like undergraduates, Law students would have to depend on their draft boards to be redeferred at the end of each year. With undergraduate status, however, a 70 on the draft test is all that would be required for deferment rather than the graduate score...
...Blanket." Farouk is a lonely man who would like to be gregarious but does not have the knack for it. He used to go to small cocktail parties given by an old American friend, but found that the other guests would freeze up in his presence and stand around silently. Finally he said to his host: "I'm not coming any more because I am a wet blanket...
...most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds in titanium-bearing ore. But turning it into metal is an immensely difficult process. It reacts so violently with oxygen that the ingots must be melted in a vacuum, or under a blanket of inert...
Then Joy advanced a new argument. It is not only the ground positions that should be considered, he said; allied air and naval strength now blanket all of North Korea up to the Yalu. In view of this, the U.N. would actually be justified in demanding a cease-fire line considerably to the north of its forward positions on the ground. The Red radio exaggerated Joy's talking point, made it sound as if the U.N. formally demanded a truce line far north of the front-line positions (which it does not). According to the Peking radio, Nam rejected...