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...there is a caste system for library books, then PZ is a shantytown for Untouchables, a repository for the forgotten or despised. Within this junkyard of print, however, there lies a treasure trove, shelved in among the romance and adventure and pure trash. In comparative secrecy, Widener wallows in a dazzling cumulative history of detective fiction in the twentieth century. --From The Widener mystery tragedy, by Josh Rubins...
...Junkyard. As a flotilla of rescue ships hurried to the scene, 15 miles southeast of Key West, Sea-Link's crewmen were told to exert themselves as little as possible in order to conserve oxygen. The crew could do little else. At the pressure that exists at a depth of 360 ft. (162 lbs. per sq. in.), a free swim to the surface was considered far too risky. Trapped along with Menzies in Sea-Link's forward observation compartment-a helicopter-like bubble made of plastic-was Marine Biologist Robert Meek, 27. The younger Link and Veteran Diver...
...first effort to reach Sea-Link was made by Navy "hard hat" divers lowered on a platform from the submarine rescue vessel Tringa. The divers got close enough to see that the sub was entangled in "one big junkyard down there." In a second try, encouraged by radioed shouts from Sea-Link ("Move south, move south!"), one got within ten feet of the sub. "Keep coming, keep coming!" Sea-Link implored, but he could not penetrate the debris...
Responding to mysterious sci-fi bleepings, a group of flower children led by David Haskell come together for a splash party in Central Park's Belvedere Fountain. There they find Christ: an androgyne wearing a Superman sweatshirt. Repairing to a junkyard, which handles only clean and cute junk, they outfit themselves as a band of strolling players devoted to acting out the Passion against the picturesque backdrop of the modern Jerusalem (Manhattan!). The players hop, skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles...
Setting up an observation post on the top floor of a high school across the street from the junkyard, police compiled a staggering mass of evidence. The bugging device provided more than 300 miles of tape-recorded conversations. Telephone wiretaps produced an additional 21,600 ft. of tape, and 36,000 ft. of color movie film and 54,000 photographs were taken of suspects entering and leaving the trailer. "The view from the summit has not been pretty," said Gold. "We have learned of deals involving the sale of narcotics, extortion and loan-sharking, corruption, coercion, bookmaking, policy, assault...