Word: hasler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to have a friend of my age," 17-year-old Bernadette Hasler wrote shortly before she died, "and if I cannot have a friend, I would like at least to have a cat or a parakeet to whom I could talk." At the time, not even her family would talk to her any more because they believed her guilty of "Teufelsbuhlschaft," or coupling-with-the-devil. Her tormentors considered this an act so evil that excorcism by prayer was useless. The devil had to be flailed...
...Final Yes. From 1958, the entire Hasler family had been under the influence of the Stocker-Kohler "holy family." The ex-priest and his mistress believed that they had been chosen by God to lead the survivors of a coming apocalypse. Minutely detailed instructions for the group came from a Carmelite nun, known as "the Little Star," over her "direct telephone to heaven...
Married. Remi Brooke, 19, elder daughter of Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke; and Donald Hasler, 18, an engineering student whom she met last September through mutual friends; in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Attending the interracial wedding were Illinois Senator Charles Percy and Massachusetts Governor John Volpe...
...only 19. He turned 18 last September and is still a freshman in college. Little wonder that Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, the first Negro elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, was startled when his oldest daughter Remi broke the news that she plans to marry Donald Hasler, a white student at New Jersey's Monmouth College. "Daddy said, 'Oh, you're so young,' " recalled Remi. But the Senator soon came around, and plans are set for a June wedding at the family's summer place on Martha's Vineyard. Donald's folks were...
Grimly serious, Hasler predicted victory, based his hopes on Jester, a radically designed, 25-ft. gin. boat that carried no rigging-only a single, easy-to-handle lug sail. Gentle and fun-loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean...