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After spending World War II "building a long chain of chainless latrines from Calcutta to Cassino," Australian Engineer Ben Carlin was understandably anxious to get away from it all. And the amphibious jeep he saw rusting on a deserted U.S. Army Air Force field in Bengal gave him an idea. "You know, Mac," he told a friend, "with a bit of titivation you could go around the world in one of those things...
...more he thought about it, the more Carlin liked the idea. It seemed "a nice exercise in technology, masochism and chance−a form of sport." He went to the U.S., bought an amphibious jeep in Maryland, named her Half Safe, tuned her up, told his wife Elinore to climb aboard, and headed for Canada. After four false starts he got to Montreal. Two years later he was ready to tool down the roads at a gay clip, and when he hit the seashore he kept right on going−splashing toward the Azores...
...there are now only 3,100 relatively calm miles of the north Pacific and a 6,000-mile overland trip across Alaska, Canada and the U.S. If his luck holds, he is sure to become the first man ever to jeep around the world. Looking back on his adventure, Carlin figures he is also sure to be the last...
...Flat Near Zagreb. Somehow, the 18-ft. 3-in. Half Safe, with her waddling 5-ft. 3-in. beam, survived an Atlantic hurricane. When he got to England, after the first leg of his journey, Skipper Carlin spent three years writing about his early adventures (Half Safe, William Morrow & Co., Inc. $5) and refitting his ship. He lengthened her sloping superstructure fore and aft, thickened her neoprene waterproofing, beefed up her fuel capacity. Interior steel fittings were replaced with aluminum and plastic until the craft was 600 Ibs. lighter. All told, the Half Safe weighed 3½ tons with...
...female roles are somewhat colorless, but this is the playwright's fault. The supporting male cast, however, is first-rate, especially Thomas Carlin, who gives an impersonation of a Dutchman that would make Danny Kaye proud. My only reservation is Jerry Stiller as Firk the apprentice; his performance, though funny in itself, is stylistically incongruous with the speech and manner of all the other actors...