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...lowly and the mighty watched solemnly as eight military officers in braided dress uniforms appeared at the door of the Federal Assembly Building adjoining Marx and Engels Square carrying Tito's pale oak coffin. As distant cannons boomed out 21-salvo salutes, the casket was placed on an open gun carriage and covered with the blue, white and red Yugoslav flag. A military band struck up a funeral dirge, Yugoslav air force jets screeched overhead, and a jeep drew the carriage slowly along six-lane Kneza Milosa. Behind the casket, sobbing and dressed in black, was Tito...
There she stands, proud, solid, white. The shining home of the Bronx Bombers looks like a baseball stadium, a palace of horsehide and oak, not a warehouse hidden between dilapidated storefronts and a disco. We even have a five-story Louisville Slugger out in front. Try to top that, whydoncha...
...long trip for Barbara Timm in more ways than one. She is anything but a political activist, although she does care about social causes that touch her life. Her five children living at home are among the few in Oak Creek bused to Milwaukee's public schools under a voluntary integration program. Familiar with the problems of the mentally ill, she has testified before state hearings on the subject. But for the most part, she and her family live quietly, bowling a lot, going on camping trips, playing the guitar...
...asked about his hometown girlfriend Donna, and confided that he had an Iranian girlfriend too. Mrs. Timm admitted to reporters that she did not know how Donna would take that news. "He knew about Eric Heiden's five gold medals," she said. "He did not know about the Oak Creek basketball team winning the state championship. He was overjoyed and thrilled...
...Back in Oak Creek, where Mrs. Timm is on leave from her job as a switchboard operator at an ironworks foundry, some townspeople consider her a traitor for going off to Iran against the Administration's wishes. Others contend that she had at least for a moment eased the tensions between the U.S. and the militants by personalizing and depoliticizing the situation. Her younger sister, Judy Haessly, 34, takes a more down-to-earth view: "She's not a traitor, and she's not Joan of Arc. She's just a mother who wants...