Word: mausoleum
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...funeral, described a conversation with Charlie Hodge, Presley's guitarist; he tearfully told how he had "been with Elvis all day. Just this afternoon I shaved his sideburns. It was the least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed, Presley's lawyers and his father Vernon are seeking city permission to move the remains of Elvis and his mother for reburial behind the secure...
Tens of thousands of Chinese solemnly gathered around a newly opened marble and granite mausoleum in Peking's T'ien An Men Square last week, honoring the memory of Mao Tse-tung on the first anniversary of his death. Although they joined in the tributes, Peking's new rulers also issued a discreet warning against exaggerated respect for the late beloved Chairman. In a Red Flag article broadcast by Peking radio, Politburo Member Nieh Jung-chen argued that Mao's thoughts should be used as a general guide to the solution of China's problems...
...wife Priscilla, 32, or his fiancee, Ginger Alden, 20, who found his body in the bathroom. Nor does Presley's will mention his longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker. Meanwhile, the Memphis police labored for a second week to keep thousands of mourners a safe 30 feet from the mausoleum where Presley is entombed...
...music business and intimidating their elders, turn themselves out just like the Elvis of the '50s, in tight pants and defensive snarls. Their unadorned, assaultive music tries for the same fierce simplicity Elvis seemed to achieve so effortlessly. Back in Memphis, hysteria prevailed. Guards were posted outside the mausoleum to keep fans and fanatics from laying waste to the burial grounds. There were to be fresh shipments of Elvis records, re-releases of the old movies, TV retrospectives. Presley mourners talked about trying to reach his spirit through seances...
...Film Festival; in Rome. Rossellini made his reputation with Open City, a film clandestinely made in Italy in 1944, and followed this success with Paisan, Germany, Year Zero and dozens of other films and TV movies. His enduring companion was Actress Anna Magnani, who is buried in his family mausoleum, but he also had a highly publicized affair with Ingrid Bergman. Finally married in 1950, they parted...