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...many of his Senate colleagues rose to praise him. Then Teddy Green took the floor. "After listening for some time," he said, "I began to wonder whether or not a great mistake had been made. I found my mind wandering, and I thought of myself as lying in a coffin in front of the dais, with my colleagues going by and dropping a flower or two as they passed." Notwithstanding his retirement, few Washingtonians thought Teddy Green was ready for flowers. Rather, they saw in him the embodiment of his favorite Latin phrase: Sinesco discens-I grow old learning...
...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...
From that time on, in his pilgrimage to discover the truth about North and South, Allan meets all the top people. There is "the notorious Levi Coffin of Cincinnati," founder of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves; Allan is armed with a hunting knife for killing abolitionists, but is charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into...