Word: torchlight
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...grew up and studied. It had been a long way home: 5,000 miles from Ndola. the small Rhodesian town where the Secretary-General had been bound to negotiate peace in Katanga. When the body arrived in Stockholm aboard an American DC-yC, 250,000 mourners gathered for a torchlight procession. At Uppsala the closed casket, nearly buried in flowers, was placed in the 13th century Lutheran cathedral, where 15,000 townfolk came to say their farewells...
...week Laos' torpid, dusty administrative capital of Vientiane swarmed with crowds-but not in panic. Along the banks of the slow-moving Mekong River there were foot races, boxing and wrestling matches. At night the temple courtyards were filled with slim girls dancing to haunting flute music. A torchlight parade wound through the city, and everyone agreed that the most magnificent floats were those of the Royal Laotian Army...
...Bishop of Oslo had refused to marry her to the divorced commoner, but last week Norway's Princess Astrid, 28, followed a torchlight procession into a small, red-brick Lutheran church outside town to wed prosperous Haberdasher Johan Martin Ferner, 33, and to be read out of royalty. The procession, which was led through 10°-below-zero cold by Astrid's sister, Princess Ragnhild (who had married a commoner in the same church seven years before), included uncommon cousins from three European kingdoms, among them a sympathetic Princess Margaret of Britain. Last came Astrid and her father...
...Manhattan, after a big, noisy torchlight parade from Times Square, Kennedy told a tumultuous crowd at the Coliseum: "I want above all else to be a President known, at the end of four years, as one who not only prevented war but won the peace-as one of whom history might say, 'He not only laid the foundations for peace in his time, but for generations to come as well...
...show up soon," a policeman told part of the crowd awaiting Senator Kennedy's progression up Broadway Saturday night, "we'll all catch pneumonia and won't be able to vote Tuesday." It was pouring rain, and the candidate was already an hour-and-a-half late for his "torchlight parade." The first segment of the show, about 150 cars decorated with Kennedy-Johnson posters and carrying electric torches, had passed at 7 p.m--on time--and has met an apathetic reception...