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...Communist-led mobs burned Nasser in effigy in Baghdad's main street. When the body of Kamil Kazanchi, the Communist lawyer executed in Mosul, was brought to the capital for burial, a funeral procession six miles long wound like a slow river through the city center. Behind the coffin marched Iraqis who short months ago acclaimed the dictator of the Nile their idol, and now shouted: "Death to Nasser! Death to Nasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Revolt That Failed | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...almost in my coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Lost Like a Beast | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

CLARENCE E. COFFIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...supplying the Communists with credit to buy capital goods, the West would be putting another nail in the coffin of freedom. It would 1) permit a Communist industrial speedup that would enable them to beat (with their usual subsidies) Western bloc quotes in export markets hitherto untouched by them; 2) free more money for the U.S.S.R. to lend at less-than-cost interest rates to uncommitted neutrals, thereby winning favor and using them up economically. Yes, trade with the Communists, but restrict the goods to food and consumer items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...Where now rests (on exhibition at $2 a look) the metal coffin of Spelunker Floyd Collins, whose body was transferred from nearby Sand Cave, where he was trapped in 1925 and finally died during an 18-day rescue attempt that attracted international attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL RESOURCES: Down The Hole | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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