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...battle. I attended the funeral with another correspondent, driving to the maid's home in the heart of Saigon. There we found the dead son laid out in Vietnamese burial clothes, with a smiling picture of him in his new ARVN uniform at the head of the coffin. Burning joss and flickering candles contributed to the heavy, almost mystical atmosphere of the tiny apartment...
...symbolic riderless horse, a caravan of 21 cars and a hearse briskly transferred the body from a funeral home to the Truman Library in Independence. There some 75,000 people queued patiently through the night, some carrying sleeping children in their arms, to file past the mahogany coffin. Explained one mourner from Independence: "This whole town was a friend of Harry's." A wreath of red, white and blue carnations (Truman's favorite flowers) was placed at the casket by President Nixon, who, with Pat, also visited the plain white frame Truman house on Delaware Street. Nixon told...
...behind a green curtain that screened them from the 242 invited mourners, all relatives or close friends of the family. At the burial site in the library courtyard-a spot Truman had selected 15 years ago-a frail but composed Bess accepted the folded flag that had covered the coffin, after a trio of traditional military touches: three musket volleys, a final 21-gun salute from howitzers of Truman's beloved World War I Battery D and the blowing of taps...
...University of Cincinnati, students have been visiting funeral homes and cemeteries and even the Hamilton County morgue. In Minneapolis, they have gone so far as to try out a coffin for size and to make detailed plans for their own funerals. Such activities may sound like something out of a Vincent Price movie, but they are part of a growing student interest in the subject of death. "To them," says Minneapolis English Teacher Robert Wolk, "death is not morbid but exciting, dynamic." As a result, young people have been taking newly organized courses in "thanatology" in some 70 colleges...
...lands neatly atop the pursuing car. Cost to prepare the bus, including two extra top decks, and shoot the episode: $500,000. In one bizarre scene in New Orleans, a Bond colleague stands watching a funeral. It is his own, and as the coffin is carried up to him, he is stabbed by Mr. Big's men. He falls, and the bottom of the coffin opens to take him inside (see overleaf...