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...deep church bell tolls. The casket passes into the decorous stillness of the vaulted interior, leaving the hundred or so second liners and the musicians outside. The organ plays hymns that would be favorites in any Baptist church: In the Garden, Just as I Am. A priest reads from Job and speaks of the "gift of music" that Albert Walters had. Funerals like Walters', as William J. Schafer fairly puts it in Brass Bands and New Orleans Jazz, are "public acts, theatrical displays designed not to hide burial as a fearful obscenity but to exhibit it as a community...
...chromium and platinum, for example. A study by Dr. Daniel Fine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Mining and Minerals Research Institute concluded last year that the Soviet Union is becoming a net purchaser of key minerals as a way of protecting its own reserves. Said Interior Secretary James Watt: "Our dependence on foreign supplies jeopardizes our defense posture. We think we are really confronted with the possibility of a resource...
Compared with earlier spaceflights, the shuttle's journey will be a luxury cruise. Columbia's interior is pressurized to a normal earth atmosphere so the astronauts will be able to wear comfortable cotton coveralls for most of the trip. Young and Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young...
...threat of resignation is about the only weapon that disgruntled top officials possess. The threat does not always work very well around the White House. James Rowe, who was Franklin Roosevelt's administrative assistant, recalls that F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, used to send in his resignation periodically. Ickes never expected it to be accepted, and Roosevelt understood that the threat was a kind of body language of power. He would bring Ickes to the White House for warmth and flattery, and thus renewed, Ickes would go back to his tasks, one of which...
TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich happened to be at the embassy at the time of the raid and reported that the staff responded with relative calm. But the attacks have taken a toll: the vulnerable ambassador's office is no longer used, and staffers now hold meetings in an interior auditorium...