Word: wrecking
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...peacetime he had been forced to parachute from airplanes; during World War II he crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck of the U.S. battleship Texas in Chesapeake Bay. Three years later, his powerboat, Valiant, went down in the Gulf of Mexico, and once more Harvey escaped with his life. The sinking of the Bluebelle, insisted friends, was all that Harvey could stand...
With Terry Jo's testimony, other disclosures of the dark side of Julian Harvey's life began to appear. At the time of the drowning of Second Wife Joann Harvey, the Florida police, the diver who inspected the sunken wreck of the 1946 Plymouth, and Joann's father wondered at Harvey's agility in getting out of the car unscratched and at his failure to try to rescue his wife and mother-in-law after his own escape. Said Diver Steve Dacosta: "At that speed and short distance, it seemed unlikely that a man could...
Other late-blooming suspicions were cast on the wreck of the Torbatross. Last week David P. Harrison, one of Harvey's passengers on that trip, reported: "I remember we sailed around the wreck twice. Harvey said he was trying to read the markings on the buoy." Said Jack Stone, former commodore of the Capital Yacht Club, home berth of the Torbatross: "Everybody who has sailed those waters knows about the Texas and just stays away from her. The wreck is way off course. You have to work at it to find her." Yet a federal court awarded Harvey...
...trotted out solemnly as the favorite object of journalistic curiosity. But TIME takes a different view. Increasingly, the real business of journalism is not to report the newest transitory "scoop" or to record the latest accident (though FIVE KILLED IN HIGHWAY WRECK still has a local urgency). Our own job, in a world that gets more complex all the time, is to sort out the essential from the transitory, to get to the bottom of conflicting claims, to pierce through the propaganda and the puffery, to try to get the facts right and to make the conclusions sound. In doing...
...most thrilling portion" of this project is creating the actual pattern of life for the inhabitants, he felt. Observing that the "average American child at the age of five is a complete wreck," Skinner said the child must be supervised 24 hours a day from birth...