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Plain Wood Coffins. Under such skillful manipulation, how many grief-stricken families have the maverick fortitude to select a plain wood coffin and demand that the undertaker dispense with embalming? The answer for a growing number of them is the memorial or funeral society, which contracts with undertakers to provide members with dignified burials costing about $150. Both Authors Harmer and Mitford (whose attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, helped organize one in San Francisco) provide a list of such societies; there are 90 in the U.S., with a membership of 35,000. The undertaking business tends to dismiss them as aggregations...
...Sieg Heil!" For the next night, so that the royal party could see Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in near-perfect security, the Foreign Office had bought up all 1,100 tickets to the Aldwych theater, distributed them to a select audience that included lead ers of London's Greek community. Shortly before curtain time, a false report that a bomb had been planted in the theater led to the additional spectacle of police in evening clothes combing the royal box with a mine detector...
...specialty, however, is custom-made dresses. She will draw what you describe, take your measurements, and show you her fantastic collection of imported fabrics. Among bolts from Spain to Siam you may select a hand-screened or blocked cotton or silk. One fitting, two weeks, and $25 (and up) later, you will be the proud owner of a Kitty Haas original...
...held till the fall of 1964. But Laborites feel themselves closer to power than they have at any time in the last dozen years. At week's end Harold Wilson returned to the attack in the Commons, demanding an investigation of the Profumo case by a parliamentary select committee with sweeping powers. The more limited judicial inquiry proposed by Macmillan, cried Wilson, was merely "a cover-up," because, without authority to compel proof or the attendance of witnesses, it would have to collect evidence "from some of the most unmitigated liars in this country...
...food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor's select group of flimsily clad dancing girls writhe to the tootles of the Imperial Bodyguard Band...