Word: shipwreck
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...referred to old age in his memoirs as "ce naufrage-that shipwreck." Still steaming along, Charles de Gaulle celebrated his 76th birthday. Or rather, he did not celebrate it. Since he loathes being reminded of the passing years, De Gaulle observed the occasion simply with a hard day's work at the office. A few birthdays downstream, former U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner is well past worrying about getting old. He really did celebrate his 98th birthday as more than 100 friends and neighbors turned up to wish him well at his house in Uvalde, Texas. "When...
...many wedded persons, though they understand it not, or pretend other causes because they know no remedy; and is of extreme danger. Therefore when human frailty surcharged is at such a loss, charity ought to venture much and use bold physic, lest an over-tossed faith endanger to shipwreck...
...account by insuring his life for $2,000,000 and letting himself be murdered. He does-and then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane and balloon. They survive shipwreck in a floating coffin, and even beat off an attack by a fleet of heavily armed Coca-Cola trucks...
...roaring American primitive who hit Honolulu like a monsoon. Hawaiians were not merely amazed at his exuberant ways; they thought that he was always drunk. His appetite for experience was enormous. Ill in bed with saddle boils, he had himself carried to an interview with survivors of a shipwreck at sea, had his dispatch thrown aboard a ship already under sail. Astride a spavined horse named Oahu, he viewed a bone-strewn battleground, exotic foliage, and "long-haired, saddle-colored maidens" with the rapt admiration of a Peeping Tom newly admitted to Eden...
Theoretically protected by $416 million a year in federal subsidies, the U.S. maritime industry has been drifting toward economic shipwreck for 20 years. Partly because the Government pays 72? out of every $1 in wages earned aboard subsidized ships, their operators have felt little spur to cut costs and improve services. Some of the sharpest criticism comes from the inside. Says Vice President Joseph A. Medernach of Moore-McCormack Lines: "The industry is one of the most backward, stodgiest and stuffiest businesses around...