Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pastor Calvin Didier, a Humphrey friend: "The only service we ever had here that ran as long as this one was when Hubert was the preacher." Afterward Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom she embraced. While the honor guard lifted the casket and moved it to a waiting hearse, she wiped away some tears, then smiled and waved to friends in the crowd. At sundown Humphrey was buried in Minneapolis' Lakewood Cemetery as television spotlights eerily illuminated his final resting place. A 19-gun salute rang through...
...held his hand warmly. So did Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Almost with eagerness, Carter, Ford and Nixon followed Baker into an anteroom for a historic picture of the three. In a few minutes it was time for these people to take their places beneath the Capitol dome to honor Hubert Humphrey...
...there because of John Kennedy's assassination, Nixon because Lyndon Johnson had been President, Ford because of Nixon, Rockefeller because of Ford. And maybe Carter was in the room because Ford had not kept Rockefeller as his vice-presidential candidate. Of course, they were all there to honor a man who, many felt, should have been President before any of those others...
...Panama, meanwhile, the Sparkman group was being treated to what is becoming the traditional package tour for visiting U.S. Senators, including a quick trip to the canal, talks with Panamanian officials and lunch with Torrijos. The Panamanian leader's guest of honor, seated at his right, was John Wayne; Committee Chairman Sparkman had to settle for the seat to Torrijos' left. Said the Duke, who started investing in Panamanian exports after World War II and scoffs at claims by conservatives that Panama's economy is a disaster zone: "I've come to see what this...
Sofu's Sogetsu (Grass Moon) school not only has a multifoliate following (more than a million dues-paying members) in Japan but has won converts and mounted shows from Moscow to Milan, Manhattan to Paris (where Sofu was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor). Last week in Tokyo he formally opened his school's eleven-story headquarters building, designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. It overlooks the palace of Crown Prince Akihito, whose family has traditionally been a patron of the flower...