Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, under the cypress trees of the Lourmarin cemetery, the mayor of the village spoke a few words, and in prayerless silence the coffin of Albert Camus was lowered...
...Republican control in the State House improved the chances that Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, only woman in the U.S. Senate, will win re-election next November. Until last week, her Democratic opponent in the Senate race seemed certain to be a two-term Congressman Frank Coffin, 40, a highly effective vote getter. But with a Republican in the Governor's chair, Maine organization Democrats will be pressuring Coffin to run for Governor instead of Senator, leaving Maggie Smith to face some less formidable opponent...
Next day 25,000 spectators lined Houston's Main Street as the coffin was borne to the Baptist Church where blue and grey honor guards stood shoulder to shoulder. Said the Rev. Mr. Stephen McKenney: "He and all his comrades have kissed the lips of immortality." Then a motorcade formed to escort him 125 miles to family burial grounds at Franklin. Texas. Soon the police-escorted procession was a mile long. Texans with heads uncovered stood by the roadside. Finally, at the Mount Pleasant Baptist cemetery, after three rifle volleys and Taps by a single bugler had echoed across...