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...rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga: he announced that he might star in a Mexican movie about...
SYDNEY RUSSELL Publisher Casket and Sunnyside New York City...
Nature's Own Way. To support this party atmosphere for death, reports Jubilee, an up-to-date funeral home must have not only a casket display room and "a closet full of slumber gowns" but also a family room and a lounge equipped with cocktail table and smoking facilities...
Clerical criticism of the undertaking business is growing. Sociologist Robert L. Fulton, writing in The American Funeral Director, attributes some of this to the clergy's loss of income from funerals and to what he calls their general loss of status in the community. The undertakers' magazine, Casket and Sunnyside (there used to be a Shadyside, but it was abandoned as too downbeat), concedes that the minister "has every right to be consulted on the time of the funeral, and that he might have some say about other details, but that the price of the service...
...families at least part of the time. The grief-stricken, notes Psychology of Funeral Service, "are less capable of reasoning than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish, but a semi-tailored interior of gold tone, savoy crepe...