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...voice cracking for the first time that day. "Yes," she said, "this is Medgar in his casket." The photograph showed the exhumed body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify because white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was on trial for his murder...
...same Hinds County courtroom and saw former Governor Ross Barnett embrace Beckwith in full view of the jury. She watched while Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and expert marksman, winked, smiled and clowned through both trials. But today "Delay", as his friends call him, now 73, sat stonefaced. In his lapel he wore a Confederate-flag pin. He strained to hear Mrs. Evers as she recounted her husband's final moments...
...that separate legislators from their constituents. Earlier this month, he scolded his staff for holding a meeting at a ryotei -- an expensive, traditional Japanese restaurant often used by Diet members to broker deals. From now on, he told them, use less pricey hotels. He avoids wearing his legislator's lapel pin, though this has incurred the ire of the country's 10,000 pinmakers. "I never liked that sense of boasting, 'I'm a Diet man,' " says Tokyo housewife Seiko Arai. "The times were waiting for an up-to-date leader like this...
...Moynihan of New York, chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, spoke for many fellow Democrats last week when he dismissed those assumptions as "fantasy" and warned that "we mustn't pretend that this is going to be free." And Republican lawmakers who attended the President's address wore lapel buttons that asked WHO PAYS...
John G. O'Brien '72, administrator of the hospital, wearing a butterfly pin on his lapel for a press conference yesterday afternoon, said the institution had undergone a caterpillar-like metamorphosis since it lost $10 million in 1987. At the time, O'Brien said, there was much concern and uncertainly over the future of the hospital and some doubt over whether it would survive...