Word: burial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town only nine miles from the Cambodian border failed disastrously despite their proximity to frontier safety (TIME, Nov. 10). By this week the Loc Ninh body count of North Vietnamese dead had grown to 926; U.S. intelligence estimated that perhaps half that many again had been dragged away for burial by their comrades, and that another 2,000 to 3,000 had been wounded. This high casualty rate (roughly 50%) for the two ill-fated Red regiments, who were ordered to take the town at all costs, made Loc Ninh one of the war's most significant Allied victories...
...Green "by choking him and hitting him in the head with a board." Weinstein gave him $50 to help stuff the body into a trunk and load it in a rented car, Hammell told police. Then Weinstein, Hammell and two teenage friends drove into the countryside to find a burial place. Hammell said that the ground was either too muddy or too hard, and they decided to return to Philadelphia and throw the trunk in the river...
...since Polyneices' sister Antigone went to her death trying to give him a proper burial has anyone had as much trouble getting interred as the late showman Billy Rose. For 20 months, Billy's mortal remains have lain in temporary storage while his two sisters, Polly and Miriam, fought with his executors over how much should be paid for his mausoleum, and by whom. Now the body has been entombed at last, in a $125,000 white granite shrine in a Westchester County, N.Y., cemetery. The inscription reads: "Billy Rose-the fabulous legend who is really real...
Allport is survived by his wife, Ada, a son, Dr. Robert Allport, who is a physician in California, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Church, Cambridge, with burial to follow
...paracide's broken body, which struck the earth two miles from the spot where Rickie's had fallen, were three meticulous notes apologizing to the club and detailing burial instructions. At his apartment in the town of Cape Canaveral, a newly pressed suit was laid on the bed for the burial. Two days later his body was buried beside Rickie's in a silver casket that he had selected himself. Wasik had hoped to be buried on his first wedding anniversary, but a county-ordered autopsy delayed the drama...