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...Parents are the crucible of our lives. The coffin never confines them. They stalk our memories, govern almost all of our acts and can never be exorcised, will it as we may. Da, meaning dad, is what this salty Irish play is all about, and in the title role, Barnard Hughes is formidable and irresistibly jocund...
...foundation. To their astonishment, the scientists stumbled upon a nobleman's grave with gold artifacts, some 1,000 years more recent than the temple. Soon they located six nearby graves of similar vintage, all between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100. Each contained an open, raised wooden coffin wrapped in fabric adorned with small gold and silver discs. The skeletal remains -four men and two women, aged 25 to 60 -had even more gleaming adornments...
...crunch, the Digger agreed to be buried at Mack's Mobile Homes lot on Highway 280 in Phenix City, Ala. "I'm not coming up till gas prices come down," said Digger. Then, wearing a T shirt and pajama bottoms, he climbed into his temporary coffin (6 ft. long and 32 in. wide and high, with a septic tank below and a viewing periscope above that doubled as a dumbwaiter for Digger's food). He was covered by 6 ft. of earth and 4 in. of concrete. Two telephones, a radio and a television, as well...
William Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian minister and antiwar activist, on strategic arms talks: "We must be moved to press not only for SALT II, but for SALT III, IV, V and VI. We have to be meek, or there will be no one left to inherit the earth...
What program? The Administration's wage and price guidelines, the program that business people and wage earners love to hate, has been as dead as Confederate currency since early spring. Last week a federal district court judge in Washington nailed the coffin shut. Judge Barrington D. Parker ruled in favor of the AFL-CIO and nine other union plaintiffs that President Carter had exceeded his authority in promulgating the guidelines. By threatening to withhold federal contracts from companies that violated the guidelines, the judge concluded, the program was coercive and thus "establishes a mandatory system of wage and price...