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...agents last September, Bailey continued, "her terror mounted to the point which is probably the highest a human being can stand, and she became incontinent." As they listened to Bailey's presentation, Patty's mother Catherine and sister Vicki, sitting next to Randolph Hearst in the first spectator bench, wept quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Piloting Patty's Defense | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...nights after his words first focused the confrontation between my students and me--two nights into "no-man's land"--I dreamed I went to the elderly black woman who came each week to clean my childhood home, and we embraced and wept together for the sadness of an affluent family in the suburbs. That won't get me very far with most blacks, and Dan and the rest of the class will probably never hear about...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Above The Battle: The Price We Pay | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...spontaneous expression of grief, nearly two million mourners, wearing white paper flowers on their padded winter jackets, gathered to place wreaths around the Monument of the People's Heroes. Bands of weeping youths gathered to sing the "Internationale" and raise their clenched fists. All over the city people wept unashamedly before portraits of Chou. At midweek the remains were taken to the Great Hall of the People, where party officials listened to a eulogy delivered by Teng Hsiao-ping. A silent mass of people lined the Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity as the hearse bearing Chou's remains moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Last Respects | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...siege, after a fruitless round of negotiations, another passenger, wearing a yellow shirt and a red tie, was brought to a door of the train. He was shot fatally in the neck and flung onto the railroad bed. Soldiers standing a few hundred yards away openly wept at the cruel sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Murder on the Milk Train | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Moving to Fill a Power Vacuum | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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