Word: urns
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GUNS by Dudley Pope. 254 pages. Delacorte. $20. The first known cannon, which resembled a funeral urn, barked some six centuries ago. Mankind has since improved the methods of mass destruction with an ingenuity that becomes distressingly evident in these pages. As early as 1453, the Turks lobbed 800-lb. shells at the walls of Constantinople. The revolver, the rifled barrel and the machine gun all date from the 17th century or earlier. By the early 1800s there were carved pistols that fired around corners and a cannonball that burst just beyond the muzzle into honed sword blades-a rude...
...achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus?a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation is possible A man genuinely humble in person, he is eager to preserve the prestige of his office?an aim that sometimes leads urn to empty or overly ambitious gestures. Within the past two weeks, the Pauline manner has been dramatically visible in three major acts of his pontificate: the announcement of his trip to the U.N.; the issuance, just prior to the opening of the council, of his encyclical on the Eucharist...
...through the chill, rainy afternoon, the simple urn containing the ashes of Jean Moulin was on view at the Memo rial to the Victims of the German Labor Camps near Notre Dame Cathedral. Inside the cement crypt glimmered 200,000 crystal rods-one for each Frenchman who died in the Nazi camps...
That night the urn was placed on an old armored car, and, illuminated by flaming torches and moving to the funereal roll of drums, the cortege passed between silent crowds bundled against the cold. All lights on the mile-long route to the Pantheon were extinguished. One cafe attempted business as usual with gas lamps, but police entered and blew them out. The colonnaded Pantheon was also dark, but brilliant tricolor searchlights cast a V up into the sky. As a military band played civil servant. When the Nazis arrived in Chartres on June 17, 1940, Jean Moulin met them...
...Civil War's La Pasionaria-rose to eulogize the fallen comrade, and Nina Khrushchev stoutly joined the pallbearers in the full state funeral in Red Square. Nikita himself stood solemnly in the honor guard just before the body was cremated, and a band played the Internationale as the urn of ashes was placed briefly at the foot of the Kremlin wall, near the spot where a portion of I.W.W. Founder Big Bill Haywood's ashes are buried. In due course, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's ashes will be flown to the U.S. and buried in Chicago...