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...week's end, this all too real mystery story had no solution. Police appeared as baffled by the murder of Bermuda's Governor Sir Richard Sharples and Aide Hugh Sayers as they were by that of the island's police chief, George Duckett, exactly six months earlier. Were the killings connected? Were they politically motivated? Nobody knew for sure, but everybody had theories. From Bermuda, TIME Correspondent James Simon sent this report...
...Wilbert B. Miller, a leader of the Brownsville parents. "And there you have an impasse." Nevertheless, school officials worked toward a compromise that would keep the children in Wilson, yet calm fears of a black invasion. "We don't want integration with these people," explained Thomas Duckett, 35, a Brownsville father of four boys, "we want quality education. If my kids can't make it on this level," he said, gesturing at the school, "what are they going to do when they reach my age?" Then he burst into tears...
Triple Lot. The last hundred years of Charlemagne's empire are the subject of this meticulous study, drawn from diaries and church histories collected and translated by Medieval Scholar Duckett. With a treasure-trove of antique detail, she shows that just as life under Charles the Great had been purposeful and pious, life without him was chaos. Three generations of heirs let the empire dwindle away under the weight of weakness, jealousy and distrust. By midcentury, Europe was divided between Charles's three grandsons-Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German. In one of the rare medieval...
Guilt & Impulse. Miss Duckett's account, though marred by the errors of style that plague scholars who wish to entertain, is astonishingly rich in anecdote. Charlemagne was obsessed with his poor handwriting, constantly practiced it as he traveled over his lands in the royal coach. Charles's son, Louis the Pious, began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald...
...pale heroes, Miss Duckett does best by Hincmar, whose Annals are the major source of her book. Hincmar lived 74 years, spent 40 of them in Prankish courts and divided his time between dark treatises on predestination and darker plots. Hincmar's cold spirit is the only one that comes alive in the book and, seen in his final years, working tirelessly to bolster the inept rule of Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, he seems the only man in the century who grew half the height of Charlemagne...