Word: shipwrecks
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...were signs of a thaw between the Harold Wilsons and "Auntie." First, the PM was featured in a friendly BBC radio interview in which he reminisced about his 25 years in politics. Next day, Mary Wilson was on a program which centers around what to save in case of shipwreck. Each celebrated castaway is allowed one book, eight records and one luxury. Mary Wilson's book: Wuthering Heights. Her records: selections ranging from Faust to English country dances. And her luxury? "A complete makeup set, just in case a ship came along to rescue...
Knocked-Down Dauphin. De Gaulle, who was 78 last November, has called old age "a shipwreck" and insisted that "one must know how to retire." Until last week, however, the general has been a reynard about the timing of his farewell. Associates assumed that he might leave early. Since De Gaulle dotes on symbolism, the dates most often guessed were June 18, 1970, the 30th anniversary of his London broadcast urging French resistance, or his 80th birthday later that year. What prompted De Gaulle last week to stop playing coy was that another fox was suddenly being blunt...
...scientific-adventure specials filmed by Captain Cousteau under the world's major oceans during a five-year oceanographic expedition. For this week's feature, "Sharks," Cousteau's crew probes the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, studying the fish and ways to protect downed flyers and shipwreck victims from them...
...influential Le Monde, Editor Hubert Beuve-Mery summed up De Gaulle's behavior, as "the shipwreck of old age"-the same phrase that the general himself in his War Memoirs applied to the late collaborator Henri Philippe Petain. "One can certainly understand and share the trouble and the anguish of those faithful to the general. But onto what new rocks will they agree to run a ship of state which they seem to forget that they, too, are responsible...
...Shipwreck and sea-wrack and sea-tangle Survive the dark magmas foundering Kelson and sextants relinquish a wrangle In souls from breached flesh combustions wring A subtlety alembicked and affined To ardent basalts...