Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...learn how to fly, had soloed and was about to graduate from the navy's air academy when he borrowed his father's Salmson sports car to go to a wedding. Rounding a curve, the headlights suddenly flickered out. When Cousteau crawled from the wreck, his left arm was broken in five places, his right was paralyzed. The doctors wanted to amputate his left arm. "I refused, thank God," says Cousteau. "You are always owner of your body...
...Wine. For new sport, Cousteau turned to prowling about the skeletons of ships on the ocean floor. Unless the ship is ancient, he has no interest in salvaging anything. He just wants to look: "I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral...
...those who have seen Kenyatta recently say that in his 60s he is an alcoholic wreck. There are younger challengers to Mboya too, and his Luo origin remains a handicap among the Kikuyu, who resent the fact that the Luos stayed out of the Mau Mau troubles and inherited good jobs in Nairobi...
...Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever was, and her unweathered face a makeup man's achievement of scarred disfiguration...
...with this legacy, Hansen has found time to launch an astonishing campaign to raise academic standards. In the two years since he took over as superintendent, Hansen's hard-hitting emphasis on basic education ("order and logic") along with classroom discipline ("firmness with love") has begun turning the "wreck" of Washington schools into a model that less beleaguered cities may envy. If in theory the nation's capital ought to be an educational showcase, Carl Hansen seems determined to make it so in reality...