Word: burial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea is old and really quite romantic. In the 9th century, deceased Viking VlPs were laid out in their own longboats and floated off to Odin in funerary flames. Today's cremation and deep-sixing are no longer simultaneous, somewhat diminishing the dramatic impact. But in California, burial at sea is once again becoming the with...
...appeal. A vote of confidence in the library from Maguire will bring cries of a buy-off, political dealings, hush money, or whatever else the post-Watergate mind can dream up. And if the firm goes against the library, the community will stay silent, perhaps coming to watch the burial. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), who calls the shots for the Library Corporation, is unlikely to risk any political gallywagging to extricate the library from that messy predicament...
...THRILLING! For a mere twenty thousand dollars, you can now choose an alternative to both cremation and burial. With any luck, you may even be choosing an alternative to death itself. The Cryonics Society of New York is peddling a unique form of insurance against terminal disease: in the event of death caused by fatal illness, your body can be frozen, suspended in a capsule of liquid nitrogen and buried in the hope (no matter how far-fetched) that some day you can be thawed back to life by some future "miracle of science." As an added bonus you will...
...equinox with a New Year's festival, many of the couples present were mixed marriages in which the Parsi father raises his children in the old religion. The Parsis of the New World (as well as a few in India) have also hit on a resolution of the burial problem-apparently without breaking the tenets of their faith-by cremating bodies. As they see it, the use of electric cremation ovens instead of flame does not violate the purity of the sacred element of fire...
...last year's ESIC championships, Princeton took the crown with the Wolfpack edging out Harvard on the last day of competition for second. Coach Essick is worried that Princeton just might have enough incentive to pull off the same feat after its burial in Cambridge in February...