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...committee based at Yale may carry out Project Jarba. No definite plans have been made, but the Rev. William sloane Coffin, the Yale chaplain, said yesterday that he was "impressed by the worthiness of the project," and had written to CARE about details...
...does portrait sketches to eke out a precariously transient existence, but all of her emotional assets are banked with her 97-year-old grandfather, Nonno. Billed as "the world's oldest living and practicing poet," Nonno (Alan Webb) gives poetry readings and wears the stiff white coffin of great age with gallantry as he wrestles with his failing memory to complete a new poem...
...Mahaney took third at 12 feet, to give the Crimson an event which Manhattan considered private property. Finally, Beckwith's 23-foot broad jump (which led another Crimson sweep), and Ed Meehan's authoritative grasp of the two-mile, helped pound nails into the Jasper coffin...
This was perhaps the grimmest meeting over which John Kennedy had presided as President of the U.S. Around him sat the members of the National Security Council, along with other diplomatic and military leaders and an assortment of top scientists. On the coffin-shaped Cabinet table rested a thin book, bound in blue paper and red-stamped TOP SECRET. It was an intelligence estimate of the results of the more than 50 recent Russian atomic tests. It made for unhappy reading, and its seriousness was only partly reflected by a public statement put out at week...
...Shanghai, where failure of the cotton crop has paralyzed textile mills, unemployed workers are being used as street cleaners. And it is becoming hard even to die. In one Kwangtung area, the commune provides one coffin per month, first come, first served. Other corpses must be buried in paper cartons, though some families scrape together enough wood to make triangular coffins, saving on corners...