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...Your article "Listening In" [April 8] brought to light the bugging of auto showrooms by dealers. In all fairness, auto dealers should not have to suffer condemnation alone. The funeral industry has been known to bug casket showrooms to find out what survivors could afford to pay for a funeral service...
...near the Pompidous' elegant seven-room apartment on the He St. Louis in the middle of the Seine. Some 400 mourners, including his widow Claude, his son Alain, members of the government and old friends, crowded the baroque church for the 50-minute service. His casket was draped with the French tricolor and, as he had requested, a choir of monks chanted ancient Gregorian hymns. After the ceremony, a cortege of black Citroëns carried the immediate family and the casket to the Pompidous' weekend retreat in the village of Orvilliers, 31 miles outside of Paris. There...
...borne through the mud and past the grunting of the pigs up to a plateau where the graveyard lies above the dark hills and valleys. The grave was dug the day before among the similar small graves which comprise more than half of the graveyard. Don Faustino lowers the casket, pours holy water over it in the shape of the cross, covers it with planks and quickly, with the help of other men, shovels the dirt back...
...loudmouth," which is rather like Linda Lovelace calling Alice Cooper an exhibitionist. Riggs promises to "psych her out of her socks." Ah, he gloats, how about this: "I get the biggest funeral wreath you ever saw, and I wear black crape all over during the match and put a casket on the side of the court with a dummy in it. After she loses, I'll bury her once...
...chateau at Vauvenargues in the bleak Provencal countryside. Accompanying the body were Picasso's widow; her daughter by her first marriage, Catherine Hutin; and Paulo, 52, Picasso's son by his first marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Koklova. After the 1 10-mile journey, the mahogany casket, without ceremony, was placed in the chateau chapel to await the building of a mausoleum...