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...Lawrence River off Montreal. All that seemed a long time ago as a 19-year-old Canadian Army cadet last week sprinted into the Place des Nations amphitheater and, before 5,250 invited dignitaries, handed a blazing torch to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Grinning, Pearson tipped the flame toward a gas jet in a canister, and a fire flickered up-to burn night and day during the six-month life of Expo...
...book's 710 pages stretches from 8:45 a.m. Nov. 20, when a vibrant, if slightly testy, John Kennedy presided over a White House breakfast for congressional leaders, to midnight Nov. 25, when Jackie prayed and placed a bouquet of lilies of the valley beside the eternal flame at the dead President's grave...
...tomb, bordered by boxwood, magnolia and cherry trees, commands a sweeping view of Washington. As before, the eternal flame, set in the center of a round, light brown stone five feet in diameter, can be seen at night from the capital below. Rough-hewn granite stones, originally cut from a quarry near Kennedy's Cape Cod summer home more than 150 years ago and recently collected from farmyard walls and abandoned foundations in that area, pave the site. On a low semicircular wall are inscribed seven quotations, all from the inaugural address. The black marble slab marking the President...
Weird and tragic turns of fate marked the fire's progress. Two men climbed a gum tree to escape deceptively low flames in the tinder-dry grass; the resinous tree erupted like a match, gluing their bodies to its trunk. In the coastal resort of Snug, villagers ran into the sea and watched neck deep as their town disappeared. An elderly man and his wife ran for their lives as the river of flame roared toward their house; the fire changed its course, and their bodies were found 100 yards from their untouched home. When the flames neared...
...idea was a way of keeping a flame under the behinds of the executive committee," William Beyer '67, said...