Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return to Geneva in June 1958, Jaccoud was arrested. He spent the next 19 months in the prison hospital, for the shock of incarceration turned him into a quivering wreck of a man, given to fainting spells." Last week Jaccoud was taken into court in a hospital chair to stand trial for the murder of Charles Zumbach...
...with this legacy, Hansen has found time to launch an astonishing campaign to raise academic standards. In the two years since he took over as superintendent, Hansen's hard-hitting emphasis on basic education ("order and logic") along with classroom discipline ("firmness with love") has begun turning the "wreck" of Washington schools into a model that less beleaguered cities may envy. If in theory the nation's capital ought to be an educational showcase, Carl Hansen seems determined to make it so in reality...
Major bonanza is the Canada Steamship Line's Kamloops, which went down off Isle Royale on Dec. 6, 1927, with a crew of 22 and, says Coghlan, $1,500,000 in papermaking machinery, plus liquor worth $750,000. Coghlan says he found the wreck in U.S. territory last Aug. 6 in 150 ft. of water, three-fourths of a mile off the island. U.S. park rangers chased him off, says Coghlan, and he was on his way to get permission to continue when the storm swamped his barge...
MURDER IN BLACK LETTER, by Poul Anderson (182 pp.; Macmillan; $3.50) presents an amateur sleuth who is a professor of Renaissance literature, a judo expert, and a nervous wreck. Black depression over the death years before of his sister overtakes him at odd moments, and, as one character says in admiration, "every couple of years Kintyre spends a few days in hell." But when a young graduate student is tortured and killed just before publishing a thesis on witches in 14th century Italy, Kintyre shakes his gloom and sniffs after the killers. Author Anderson creates a spooky San Francisco cityscape...