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Growlers & Brash. A small West German ocean-going trawler, the Johannes Krüss, and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell turned toward the stricken ship. Another German fishing trawler radioed that she was on the way. At 3:36 came the final message from the Hedtoft: "Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance." In Newfoundland, where U.S. and Canadian aircraft were grounded or turned back by the foul weather, search-and-rescue officers estimated that anyone forced into the freezing ocean would "last just over 60 seconds...
...poetry reading is left mostly to poets -and there are not many poets around. Magazines devoted exclusively to verse are frail, poverty-stricken, ephemeral publishing ventures, subject to sudden collapse; Poetry, largest (5,500 subscribers) of about ten U.S. poetry magazines, must beg constantly to stay alive. In book circles, the sale of 5,000 copies of a volume of poetry is considered unusually brisk. Yet by last week An Introduction to Haiku, a book on one form of Japanese poetry released two months ago by Doubleday, had sold 9,500 copies and was still going strong...
William E. Moffitt, associate professor of Chemistry since 1955, was stricken with a fatal heart attack while playing squash in the Hemenway Gymnasium Friday...
...looms and mounts; J.B.'s children are senselessly killed or brutally murdered, his possessions are lost, his house is destroyed, his wife goes away, his body sickens. All this happens against a crossfire of commentary, Biblical and profane, between Zuss and Nickles, a crossfire that continues as the stricken J.B. wrestles with his soul, with his Comforters, with his God, until at length his health is restored and his wife returns...
Fernando Cento, 75, wanted to be an engineer as a boy in Pollenza, but yielded to his mother's pleading and entered a theological seminary, graduated with honors in only 2½ years. Appointed Bishop of Acireale in Sicily in 1922, he attracted attention by pulling his poverty-stricken diocese out of its downhill course. He became nuncio to Venezuela in 1926, to Peru in 1936, to Belgium in 1946, to Portugal in 1953, is famed for his sense of humor and daring use of languages that he has not completely mastered...