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...clearly returning to take over power. All factions, including the Pathet Lao's Red Prince Souphanouvong, will peacefully assemble in Luangprabang, this week for the long delayed cremation of King Savang Vatthana's father, who has been encased for 18 months in a sandalwood coffin. As the government-controlled Lao Presse hopefully put it: the cremated King, in his "final departure toward nirvana, might bring about the miracle for which the whole world waits...
...athletic Secretary who speaks with more authority than most is H. Coffin IV, '61 of Kirkland. "There is no question that the wants that Trophy again," Coffin stated recently. "If we're not -confident, we'll win." He pointed to Krikland's past tennis team and team shored up by experienced pitching and sophomore talent. Don't count us out yet," Winthrop's Athletic Secretary Arnold '61 declared. "If Winthrop can mobilize all of its forces, can pick up a lot of ground and catch Kirkland." Margoluis was optimistic about the Puritan golf team--a sport in which Houses have...
...Pacer was the only plane around. Just after takeoff, the engine quit. The plane crashed into a tree, and Corrigan was killed. Last week, when his body was brought back to Luangprabang, more than 1,000 Laotians stood silently by. Buddhist monks said prayers over the coffin, and the governor laid a wreath, saying: "From his Laotian friends, their eternal regrets...
...ordered workmen to build temporary housing to accommodate the 6,000 dignitaries he expects from all over the world. Six weeks hence, when the guests gather in a field outside the town, the torch will be touched, and the old King, in his gilded coffin carved from a sandalwood trunk chosen by the bonzes as predestined to receive the royal body, will go up in scented smoke...
...Concubines. The palace gates opened. Shrieks rose to the sky as the coffin of King Mohammed V emerged, draped in a venerable black, green and gold cloth that, by tradition, had hung at the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca. Rhyth mically the crowd cried "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" (God is most great). Thus last week King Mohammed V. the found er of independent Morocco, was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum. Mohammed, though recently prone to hypochondria, was in good health and enjoyed life with his two wives and an estimated 28 concubines. Yet last week, swiftly...