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...friends ("If he's not feeding you," says one of them, "he's telling you what kind of car or clothes to buy"). He is still a passionate reader, especially of 19th century Russian novels: "My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you goddam genius...
Though Richard Nixon may still be a villain to many Americans, there are probably few citizens so spiteful as to dance on his casket if he were to lose his fight with phlebitis. Yet that contingency was troubling an otherwise judicious commentator last week. William Raspberry, in his Washington Post column, speculated about whether Nixon should receive a state funeral or a modest ceremony commensurate with his inglorious exit from office. A state affair, Raspberry warned, might result in "the inflaming of anti-Nixon passions and renewed political strife." Raspberry worried whether "someone will be sufficiently hateful and tasteless...
...confined to a stretcher, had himself flown to Maui, where he arranged the details of his funeral and burial as meticulously as he had planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body was dressed in a khaki work shirt and dark cotton work trousers and, according to his wishes, his pallbearers also wore simple work clothes. The other mourners, including his wife...
...younger son, the Rev. A.D. Williams King, drowned in a swimming pool. "I'm not gonna quit and I'm not gonna be stopped," said "Daddy" King at the funeral. "We've got to carry on." Then, as he gazed at his wife's white casket he added softly, "So, Bunch, I'm coming on up home. I'll be home almost any time...
...funeral procession moved from the President's house at Olivos outside Buenos Aires to the city's cathedral and then to the Congress. Atop Perón's casket, which was wrapped in Argentina's blue and white flag, were his general's cap and saber. Men and women lining the five-mile route burst into tears. Some tossed flowers at the coffin; others simply waved their handkerchiefs. There were plaintive cries of "Adiós, mi general" and "Chau, viejo," meaning, affectionately, "Goodbye...