Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first snowflakes were flecking Edwin Walton's windows when his barn roof flashed red in the night. Explosions that followed the first great fireball were still reverberating as the Waltons reached the wreck of Trans World Airlines Flight 128 close to their ranch house in Hebron, Ky. The four-jet Convair 880 bound from Los Angeles with 82 persons aboard was approaching the Greater Cincinnati Airport when it clipped saplings on the bluffs above the Ohio River, caromed over a ridge, sliced through tall timber, and then ploughed into an apple orchard half a mile away...
...down on a brilliant but ambitious scholar. "A really distinguished mistress would spare me ten years of setbacks and sordid intrigue," says Lecadieu. He gets one, a politician's wife. He also gets caught. Exiled from Paris, forced to marry a worn-out woman, he ends up a wreck teaching Latin texts to schoolboys. He can't even remember what his ambition...
There the good luck ended. Last week a hunter discovered the wreck and in it a pathetic diary of the family's ordeal jotted down by Carla and Phyllis in the margins of a flight...
Lost Luck. When the wreck was finally found, the family's luggage was still inside, inexplicably unopened. Lying near the plane amid a Crosshatch of animal tracks, the hunter found the scattered bones-gnawed by bears and coyotes-of two bodies. The search for Alvin went...
...source of particular concern because architects and developers alike feel that the best of the projects could teach the whole country how to surround homes with a more pleasant environment. Moreover, planners consider new towns a promising antidote to the suburban sprawl. Such haphazard building, they say, could wreck the countryside as the U.S. doubles its stock of housing over the next 30 years...