Word: caskets
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...manifests and other records of the 50-odd ships plundered by the Whydah's captain before his ship sank, estimates that the loot still in the sand is worth $380 million more. It includes 500,000 to 750,000 silver coins, 10,000 lbs. of gold dust, a casket of "hen's-egg-size East Indian jewels" and some African ivory...
...Each casket, bearing the remains of one of Challenger's crew, was accompanied by an astronaut. Top officials of NASA, the space agency whose reputation has been badly tarnished by the disaster, also boarded the giant C- 141 en route to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It was Dover that received the bodies of the 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, killed in Beirut in 1983 and the 248 U.S. Army Airborne victims of last year's plane crash in Gander, Newfoundland...
...guard attended the transfer of the Challenger coffins to the base mortuary, but no relatives of the crew were present. Most had been in Houston on Jan. 31 for the memorial service addressed by President Reagan. Each family now made its own arrangements to receive a crew member's casket...
...they had to close the casket, poor thing...
...been marked until hours before with the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, who died in 1979, two gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored wood of a coffin. The diggers broke open the casket and, as the crowd jockeyed for position, began handing the contents up to Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair of rotting trousers. And as journalists scribbled...