Word: burial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even ready Michigan authorities became when they learned that Helfgot admitted he was getting his information about Hoffa fourth-hand-by talking to a courier who was talking to gangsters who were talking to a man who had knowledge of the whereabouts of Hoffa's burial. "It's pure baloney," said one federal investigator. "That stuff about the Mafia is bunk. Look, if the Mob wanted Hoffa's body found, they would have it found...
...certificates by the roadside because the Guardia Civil officer in charge refused to allow them to see the gravesites. "You cannot pass," said the officer sternly. "I have my orders." The father of one dead man muttered bitterly, "This is a crazy country if the family cannot attend the burial...
...Kissinger took time out from his U.N. rounds to attend the quiet burial of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the alliance founded in 1954 to contain the expansion of Communist regimes in Southeast Asia. He and the representatives of the active members of SEATO-Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand-decided that the alliance, "in the light of the new situation in the Southeast Asian region, should be phased out." Thailand and the Philippines were becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the treaty at a time when they had begun to seek improved relations with Peking, and with Hanoi emerging...
Near the beginning of this great Midwestern journey, Charles Neumiller supervises the home burial of his father Otto, a German Catholic immigrant who had carved an honest farm out of the unyielding North Dakota plains. Near the end, Charles himself dies and is mourned by new generations of Neumillers. Between these obituary landmarks, Charles' son Martin marries, raises a family of five reasonably normal children, moves from North Dakota to Illinois and loses his wife to uremia. That is, in effect, the whole story. The plot of Beyond the Bedroom Wall could easily fit into half a nutshell...
...time Europe's scholars had grudgingly accepted the Schliemanns' discovery, the two had repeated their feat of literary and archaelogical detection by finding a second trove of prehistoric gold artifacts in a series of ancient royal tombs. One of them was perhaps Agamemnon's burial site at Mycenae...