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...Coffin Torture. For three years, Merlino, 49, and Faticati, 45, lived in cold, dirt and hunger they had never known in Naples. There were 10,000 prisoners in the camp, crowded like cattle, 40 or 50 to a room. They got only potato soup, carrots and 200 grams of bread for their daily meal. Their letters, to their families and Communist friends in Italy, to Hungarian Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, were not delivered. One day Faticati had a nervous breakdown; he screamed and cried for his four children. When the guards came, Merlino went to defend his comrade...
Guadix (pop. 26,000). on the sun-hammered Spanish plain of Andalusia, is a poor town in a poor land. Along the dusty path to the cemetery of Guadix one day last week, the relations of Paula Pilar Magan carried her body in its rough coffin...
Instead, three friars met them at the cemetery gate. They carried the coffin, chanting psalms of resurrection, to a freshly dug grave, where one of them read the Office of the Dead. Long after the family had gone, the friars remained by the fresh mound in prayer...
Last week in Berlin there were candles for Ernst Reuter on both sides of the Brandenburger Tor. His body lay on a catafalque in front of his beloved Rat-haus. The coffin was draped in the Berlin flag and surmounted by his black beret. All one day and all that night, tens of thousands of Berliners filed past. Among them were many East Berliners, clutching their free food parcels. "He was our Reuter too," said one East zone woman. Her husband could only mutter: "What will...
Last week, eight years to the day after the surrender of his Japanese enemies, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 70, died of a stroke. After his funeral service, a detail of Fourth Army soldiers escorted his body out of Fort Sam's chapel to the post gate. Behind the coffin, his orderly led a cavalry horse with an empty saddle, the general's spurred boots reversed in the stirrups, and the sword he had once surrendered on Corregidor hanging stiffly at the side...