Word: solemnizations
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...Johnson to investigate the assassination of John Kennedy got started last week - but just barely. It met twice in Washington's National Archives building, performed a few routine organizational chores, voted to ask Congress for subpoena powers, and called it a week. "This commission has a sad and solemn duty to perform," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, chairman of the investigating panel. But, he added glumly, "we are operating somewhat in the dark." A first step toward getting the inquiry off the ground would be the receipt of an FBI report on the circumstances surrounding Kennedy's death...
...does a coach get his team up for a game? He wheedles, he needles, and if all else fails, he sinks to his knees in solemn supplication. But when the game is Army-Navy-the bitterest of all rivalries-nobody needs to be keyed up. WE CAN, WE WILL, WE MUST, read a banner at West Point. Bah! snorted Navy Coach Wayne Hardin. "We think we are the No. 1 team in the nation. We want to prove it." Army's Paul Dietzel mockingly agreed. "Don't panic," he told his players...
...laymen would carry to the altar the wine and the hosts to be consecrated. The Canon, the most ancient prayer of the Mass, would remain in Latin; but rather than being recited silently, it would be said aloud, as is the custom in the ancient Eastern liturgies. On certain solemn occasions, such as Nuptial Masses, laymen would be able to receive Communion in the form of wine as well as bread. And the Mass would conclude not with the reading of the beginning of St. John's Gospel, a late Renaissance accretion, but with a final blessing...
...repeated those phrases five times, and as he did so, Jackie Kennedy held her face rigid as stone. Beside her were the children, Caroline and John Jr., dressed in matching powder-blue coats and red shoes. Caroline was solemn and open-eyed. But John-John capered about, tugging at his mother's hand, and had to be sent from the rotunda with his nurse. When he left the Capitol later he was clutching a small flag on a foot-long stick. He had spotted it in the office of House Speaker John McCormack and firmly announced, "I want that...
...National Cemetery. While the President and U.S. military leaders were marching toward the Tomb of the Unknowns, John-John escaped from Secret Servicemen and busted into the parade. Some folks thought that a good, firm nanny might well be employed to keep a 2½-year-old out of solemn ceremonies, but the President thought the whole incident was hilarious. Anyhow, Look Magazine was closing an exclusive pictorial essay on the lad, and the White House, which likes to pass publicity around, felt that other photographers should have some pictures of John-John in action...