Word: quilting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merger, 59, said that Madame de Gaulle "asked for the same kind of casket I make for everybody else. When I asked if she didn't want something military, she said 'Non.' " Pointing to the extra-length (6 ft. 11 in.) oak coffin, lined with white quilt and trimmed with an aluminum cross, Merger added: "He was right. Who would need anything more?" Total cost: $72, or $9 more than usual, because of the size...
Hartke, meanwhile, made it sound as if Roudebush were somehow personally responsible for the state of the economy. Other Democrats fantasized about nonexistent marriages in Roudebush's past; in fact he has been married only twice. The Hoosier vote split in crazy-quilt pattern that defied analysis, and was so close that there was no clear winner last week. In the unofficial count, Hartke led 867,857 to 863,608. Though Hartke claimed victory, Roudebush refused to concede pending a formal tally and an investigation of fraud charges...
...prove to be more of a patchwork quilt, with multicolored squares for sections covered by contracts with a variety of private insurers. If administration is not made too cumbersome, that would be far better than the present non-system with its huge gaps. Walter McNerney, president of the Blue Cross Association and head of a task force soon to report to the President on the nation's health needs, believes that a monolithic system operated by HEW would be wildly inflationary-and not sufficiently innovative. He wants a flexible, pluralistic plan...
...past films (Crazy Quilt, Funnyman), Director John Korty has shown a predilection for whimsy. Here, almost as a reaction, he presents a stark, lean story of a young couple who go back to the land to scratch out some meaning. They have abandoned Berkeley, and now raise sheep in the ineffable Northern California coast. To the couple, it is an act of love; to the old man, the idyl is pointless and backward. He insists on staying with the unmarried couple until the baby comes, and snipes at their supernatural way of life. As the wrangle intensifies, Korty alleviates...
...Reckingen in Switzerland last week. Highly unpredictable, slab avalanches occur when one cohesive layer of snow breaks free of the ground or of other snow layers. They can be caused by rising temperatures that send lubricating water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel locomotives, push small bridges hundreds of feet from their pilings and rip up vast reaches of forest...