Word: caissons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisp and sunny, but a cold wind whipped through the marble columns of the white Arlington amphitheater, riffling the rows of flags. At 11 o'clock a can non thudded out the first salvo of the slow, rolling 19-gun salute and a flag-draped caisson moved slowly up from the Arlington gate, bearing the first U.S. Secretary of Defense to a sailor's grave...
Richard M. Sandler of Mathews Hall--PBH, Brooks House Committee, Fall Blood Drive, Clothing Drive, Co-Chairman Spring Blood Drive. Jack Willis of Mathews Hall--National Scholarship Holder, Caisson Club Dance Committee. Albert J. Klingel, Jr., of Holworthy Hall --Debate Council, PBH Blood Drive Worker. Harvard Young Republican Club, Free Enterprise Society. William Holden of Thayer Hall--Freshman 150 lb. crew, Freshman track. Charles Nelson, Holworthy Hall--Freshman football, PBH social work at Cambridge Community Center, Freshman track, Natl. Scholarship holder. John G. Morey of Mower Hall--1952 Smoker Committee, Debate Council. Richard T. Button of Masachusetts Hall. Harvard Varsity...
...away, walked a group carrying a giant portrait of the dead man. Next came nine generals, one admiral, three civilians, each carrying on a red plush pillow one of Zhdanov's 13 military, naval and civilian decorations. 'The open red and black draped coffin rode on a caisson pulled by six jet-black, white-harnessed horses. Zhdanov's mustached, lifeless face was green in the glittering sunlight. Beside the caisson walked Stalin, with Molotov on his right; and behind Stalin, youngish (47), tough Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, with Police Boss Lavrenty Beria on his right...
...Army's Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. The other was Corporal Edward George Wilkin, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, who died in action three years ago in Germany. His body had been brought home at last for reburial on Memorial Day. Standing beside the funeral caisson, General Bradley spoke a few quiet words of tribute. Then, to a nation which often before has forgotten its history, he delivered a reminder and warning...
...unknown soldier; for this occasion one body was designated as John X). Joseph Cardinal van Roey, primate of Belgium, said a blessing for John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport Joseph V. Connolly, strung with flowers from bow to stern. While U.S. Thunderbolts from Germany dipped aloft, the Connolly steamed down the Scheldt, its banks lined with...