Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churchill lay in state in Westminster Hall, the three party leaders, Labor's Wilson, the Conservatives' Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and the Liberals' Jo Grimond, stood together in reverent silence before the catafalque. They must have recognized the Tightness of the scene, for in this very hall and on the very spot where Churchill lay Simon de Montfort had called together Britain's first Parliament 700 years before almost to the day. In its long history the hall had seen prodigies, from the Court of William Rufus in 1099 to the trials of Guy Fawkes...
...more-one for every year of Churchill's life. Sixty Highland bagpipers from different Scottish regiments piped the coffin down to the wharf at the foot of Tower Hill where Beefeaters in full uniform stood guard. Against the backdrop of Tower Bridge the vast Pool of London lay as still as an inland lake. Across the river great cranes bowed low in touching, mechanical precision. To the piping of a bo'sun's whistle, the coffin went aboard the Havengore, a Royal Navy launch...
Students at Lake Worth Junior High School near Fort Worth have for years been learning the hard way. Their school lay directly in the approach path of SAC's Carswell Air Force Base, and every day there was a 10% loss in teaching time as the B-52 jet bombers thundered over. Last week Lake Worth had a clever solution to the problem...
...More surprising as a feathered friend is the vulture, but Chicago Dealer Bernie Hoffman sells at least a dozen a year at $50 a head. "A vulture," he observes, "makes a wonderful conversation piece sitting on the chandelier." Bernie Hoffman can sell all the tarantulas ($5 each) he can lay hands on. He insists that "tarantulas can really be quite tame. They learn to love their masters. You can teach them to crawl up your...
...German consortium will soon start building a $125 million natural-gas pipeline from the Dutch border to Bavaria. France's third petroleum products pipeline between Le Havre and Paris is nearing completion, and three similar lines are planned between other French cities. Plans are even being made to lay pipelines across the floor of the Mediterranean to carry natural gas from fields in Algeria directly into the European network...