Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reading newspapers may be a national habit, but it is by no means an addiction. When strikes silence a city's press, the papers involved invariably lose circulation after recovering their voices. And when a paper dies, many of its readers seem to follow it to the grave. Last week, with Hearst's New York Mirror only just put to death (TIME, Oct. 25), the question was: Where did all those 835,000 Mirror readers...
They began crowding into the cemetery four hours before the funeral, and by 11 a.m., 25,000 had squeezed in while nearly as many more were outside the gates. Pushing, shoving, screaming, trampling other graves, they surprised the outnumbered police, who helplessly shrilled on their whistles trying to maintain order. Women fainted, and were laid out on tombs. (One was carted off to a hospital in the funeral hearse.) And amidst the tumult, the body of Edith Piaf, along with her cherished good luck charms, a stuffed rabbit, squirrel and lion, was lowered into its grave...
Poking through the scant ruins, Public Works Minister Fiorentino Sullo mourned: "A truly Biblical disaster, like Pompeii." As the dead were stacked in a mass grave, angry Italians demanded an investigation. Before Vaiont Dam was built four years ago, local residents tried to get the hydroelectric project halted on grounds that the surrounding mountains were too avalanche prone. Mount Toe threw down such landslides so regularly that its nickname was "The Walking Mountain." But the government approved the reservoir anyway...
...church teaches that man treads a progressive path to perfection: in a pre-existent state as a soul without a body, in the life on earth, and finally in the afterlife. More than most religious believers, Mormons seem to keep busy seeking perfection from the cradle to the grave. Every worthy boy becomes a priest at the age of twelve, and two out of three Mormons work part or full time in serving the church...
Under Brazil's constitution, the President can petition Congress to declare a state of siege in the event of "grave internal disturbances or when there is evidence that disturbances are about to erupt." The words precisely described the chaotic state of affairs in Latin America's biggest nation last week, and President Joao Goulart made it official. Unable to cope with any of the major crises -and few of the small ones-he asked the Brazilian Congress to proclaim a 30-day state of siege...