Word: processional
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Kathleen O. Eliot, Dean of Instruction; Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of the Graduate School; and Thankful Bailey, President of SGA, also delivered brief speeches. The ceremony was preceded by an academic procession for which, in an unexplained departure from tradition, seniors did not wear academic gowns.
In the courtyards of the Czech and Soviet embassies in Léopoldville, documents burned by night, and workers nailed covers on big wooden crates. In the Red Chinese mission, clothes were hastily crammed into suitcases. Then Communism's Congo corps of diplomats, "technicians" and correspondents rolled in melancholy...
Parade Rest. In Toledo, while leading the city's Public Employees Week parade. Patrolman George Zientara took the whole procession on a one-block detour, later explained: "I have an uncle who lives on Giant Street, and he's never seen all the municipal equipment together."
¶ Over cookies and coffee with the press in his summer mansion on Mackinac Island, Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams plighted his state's 51 delegate votes to Jack Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. In accepting Michigan's endorsement, Kennedy hoped out loud that a procession...
But others did come, bringing flowers. They arrived from Moscow by taxi and private car; they came by footpath through the woods or across the open fields from the suburban railroad station. A slow procession wound through the house to view the body: students, workers, peasants, elderly men and women...