Word: kon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poor Richard is not well served in direction and cast. Director Peter Wood has the Kon Tiki touch: he sets the play adrift for the night and apparently prays that it will reach its destination. As The Caretaker showed, Alan Bates is fearfully good at transmitting menace, but as a charmer his signals are garbled. As Bates's second mate-to-be, Joanna Pettet is an indelibly enticing ingenue, but speech is her impediment. She says all the words correctly, but her avidly sincere delivery turns comic gold into lead. Poor Richard is not rich enough to afford...
Imagine the natives' surprise in 1954 when a grizzled old American William Willis, then 61, hit the beach on Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa, after floating 6,400 miles across the Pacific-on a raft, no less. That was even better than the Kon-Tiki expedition. "It was a nightmare, and a beautiful dream," said Willis, and decided to do it again some time. Last week it was the natives of Apia, Western Samoa, who were star tled, as in over the reef came Willis, two cats and raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru...
Concord's top scorer, a former member of the Harison Globetrotters' farm team, earned 22 points. Leverett's Jim Beery Tom Piper, Kon Nahigian, and Mike Hardesty scored 10 each...
...theory expounded by Thor Heyerdahl in his bestselling Kon-Tiki that the cultural traffic went t'other way, from Peru to the South Pacific, is dismissed by most experts...