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Soon, a white Cadillac hearse drew up before the entrance and a simple bronze casket was taken inside the hospital. Jackie removed the wedding band from her left hand and slipped it on the President's finger, and then the casket was closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Assassination | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...Johnson waited inside while a yellow cargo lift lumbered out to the plane's rear door. Uniformed pallbearers struggled to shift the heavy casket from the plane to the lift. Robert Kennedy met Jackie at the door, helped her to the ground. Officials motioned Jackie toward a black Cadillac, but she insisted on staying with the casket. She got into a grey military ambulance, refused to sit in front, climbed in back near her husband's body. Bobby joined her, and they drove off behind closed grey curtains between two lines of a white-gloved honor guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Transfer of Power | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

Some 8,000,000 Spanish "heads of families" went to the polls last week in municipal elections to cast their ballots for a list of government-approved candidates. Voter No. 41 in Section 9, Quarter 5 of Madrid's Revised University District stepped into a Cadillac for the brief ride from El Pardo Palace to a tiny yellow schoolhouse. There, under the gaze of his own official portrait, El Caudillo greeted members of the municipal election board, who graciously waived the usual identification procedure. Franco reached into an inside pocket of his double-breasted dark grey suit, removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Voter No. 41 Does His Duty | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

Ragtag it may be. But amateur football has its dedicated following. When Charlestown won Boston's Senior League championship in 1959, 17,000 rooters were on hand, and one fan got so excited that he drove his Cadillac onto the field and rammed it into the goal posts until they finally fell down. Every evening, outside Jack the Barber's one-chair barbershop on Bunker Hill Street, scores of youngsters gather to ogle the neighborhood heroes, talking football inside. They wheedle and whine until Star Townie Halfback Nippy Nolan agrees-as he always does-to perform the stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Measured in Merthiolate | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...victory left Paz in firm control of Bolivia. Violence is still possible; Paz rides to the palace each morning in a bulletproof Cadillac and keeps a tommy gun in the car. But he is the odds-on favorite to win the party's nomination for another four-year term in the presidential election next June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: The High, Hard Land | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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