Word: earths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ..." Nineteen times, saluting cannon fire boomed and echoed. Then three sharp rifle volleys sounded, and the last, sad farewell of Taps...
...minutes later, the mourners moved back toward their cars. Alone at the head of the grave, a cemetery workman stuck into the fresh earth a metal marker reading simply...
...projects beckon. The city of Detroit has asked him how to give sculptural shape to 60 million cubic yards of earth excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
Died. Louis N. Ridenour Jr., 47, top-notch nuclear physicist who, despite being emotional about his specialty (in 1946 he wrote a grim, prophetic, one-act play about flocks of satellite bombs orbiting 800 miles above the doomed earth), pioneered in missile programs as chief scientist (1950-51) of the Air Force, helped develop the Polaris and X-17 missiles as research director of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s missile-systems division, became a Lockheed vice president last March; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington...
...That is Author Beckett's way of showing the measureless distance between man and his fellow. But Watt's distance from himself is even greater. Not for him the prescription, "Know thyself"; the little he knows about himself he hates. He also hates other things, especially the earth and the sky. The closest he has ever come to companionship is with a man who shares his hatred of birds and love of rats. To the rats they would feed frogs and baby thrushes: "It was on these occasions, we agreed, after an exchange of views, that we came...