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...watch-and to hear. With a rafter-quaking oratorical style. Clement hopes to roll his throbbing clauses to the vice-presidency this year. A typical Clement peroration: "Once in this world, a lonely figure climbed a cross-marked hill, and went from there into an airless tomb. He was the foe of lies, dishonor, theft and treachery. He was the champion of truth, honor, faith and bravery. It is my fervent prayer that I can so live as to be worthy of His sacrifice. If you cannot find it in your hearts to give me your votes...
...turnabout resulted from a ludicrously simple one-word error in El Caribe last Oct. 27. By an unexplained fluke, a picture caption in that issue mentioned that flowers had been placed before Trujillo's tomb (tumba); the word should have been bust (busto). It was a fatal error, Ornes explained last week, because Trujillo "is very vain and superstitious. He thinks he is immortal, and the worst thing you can do is suggest his death." When he saw the word tumba in print, Ornes said to his U.S.-born wife: "This is the end of everything...
Swift died at 77 in agony (at the onset of his final illness five men were needed to hold him in his bed). The inscription on his tomb in Dublin's St. Patrick's says that "the body of Jonathan Swift . . . is buried here, where fierce indignation [saeva indignatio] can lacerate his heart no more." To this great and terrible man, Biographer Murry says, death was "not the opening of a gate but the closing of a wound...
...from China, Mongolia, North Korea and North Viet Nam, India, Burma and Afghanistan, these visitors, many of whom have never seen a large city before, are awesomely impressed by Moscow, by the gilt and the grandiosity, and see no incongruity in the joylessness of Muscovites. At the red granite tomb of Lenin and Stalin in Red Square, day after day they queue behind their guides waiting for the moment to file silently past the embalmed Communist leaders, their wax en faces still faintly saturnine. Here, as at the Bolshoi, the Western visitor, brought quickly to the head of the line...
...simple tomb at Arlington, of white Colorado marble, encloses the body of an un identified American soldier who fell in France during World War I. The body was selected from four unknown soldiers in the city hall at Chalons-sur-Marne by Army Sergeant Edward F. Younger, a twice-wounded veteran, who marched past the four caskets, dropped a spray of roses onto the second. "I passed the first one ... the second. Then something made me stop," said Sergeant Younger (who is him self now buried at Arlington). "And a voice seemed to say, 'This...