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...Service Chauffeur Bill Greer came up to her and sobbed, "Oh Mrs. Kennedy, oh my God, oh my God, I didn't mean to do it, I didn't hear, I should have swerved the car, I couldn't help it." Then he embraced her and wept on her shoulder...
Miller's father, sitting in the courtroom, wept. Then he and his wife drove to Stateville Penitentiary. After ten years, during which he had faced execution ten separate times, their son, now 40, walked through the gates pulling a handcart piled with his possessions...
Basis in Fact. The author's childhood years, with their moments of naked understanding and their eons of illusion, come across best. The character sketches are deft and pleasing. The narrator says about his mother: "While she was thinking she wept a little, just so the thinking shouldn't go to waste." And about Sam Gold's lieutenant in the shop, Myrna, a great robust woman who tempts the boss into carnal misbehavior: "Two husbands had already died under her, and one had fled." If that isn't pure gold, it is at least pure Gold...
...three caskets in the evening gloom, laboring under harsh spotlights. Among the few spectators were Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Boston's Richard Cardi nal Gushing. After a crane lifted the caskets to their new site, Gushing intoned a brief prayer, then wept. So did the Kennedy brothers...
...have to be brought to trial on charges that he encouraged the abortive Communist coup of 1965. The verdict might well be guilty, and the sentence death. They reminded him that they were already armed with a parliamentary resolution demanding his ouster. At one point, Sukarno broke down and wept, pleading that he be given "a chance to die in my home country." But he recovered next day, presented the triumvirate with unacceptable demands...