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...bomber in World War II, and, as he began planning for his own funeral, he recalled the Federal Government's promise that every war veteran could be buried in a national cemetery. The only such cemetery in his native West Virginia is in the town of Grafton, which suited Albright perfectly because his parents and grandparents are buried near by. But when he first inquired five years ago about a plot for himself, he learned that the three-acre Grafton National Cemetery had been full ever since 1957. Says Al bright: "I was real disappointed. That's where...
Albright formed an organization called the West Virginia United Veterans National Cemetery Committee and urged the Veterans Administration to enlarge the Grafton cemetery. Instead, the federal agency decided to save money by digging up 627 unknown Civil War dead and reburying them in separate plastic urns in a mass grave. Over this grave, said the VA, it would erect an imposing common headstone with an inscription stressing the theme "Now We Are One." The VA actually opened up eleven graves and found only a few relics inside. Says Albright: "The dead had no uniforms, no identification, no nothing. So what...
...Kennedy name. The remembrance of things past, of Jack and Bobby, not as they were but as they now seem to have been. That was Ted Kennedy's biggest political asset when he started his campaign in November. Explained Pharmacist Ken Dockter, 23, in Grafton, N.D.: "Right away you think of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and you kind of get pulled into it." Said Leroy Allen, 52, a black steelworker in Gary, Ind., who voted for John Kennedy in 1960: "Who can lead us to the promised land? Everybody's looking for Moses." Boston University Political Science...
...this show should be held in London, since the word post-impressionism was invented there, and applied to the painting of the 1880s by Roger Fry, the English art critic, when he organized a sensationally vilified show of Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Cézanne and others at the Grafton Galleries in 1910. By then the painters that Fry's exhibition encircled were all dead, and his name for them was a last resort: he toyed with calling them "expressionists," luckily decided not to, and at last exclaimed, "Oh, let's just call them postimpressionists; at any rate, they came...
...Kilik generates all their offense. We stopped everyone except her," said Bertagna. The fact that all but one of the Grafton, Mass. sophomore's tallies were unassisted defends this to the point of depression...