Word: raft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past three months. The new date is July 7, but many Argentines doubt that they will come to pass. Last week a new crisis threatened after General Enrique Rauch, Argentina's new Interior Minister, issued a communiqué attacking four other Cabinet ministries and calling for a raft of new reforms before the July 7 elections. Instead of compromise and cooperation, today's Argentina seems only to invite collisions of extremes. As one Argentine sociologist put it: "There is no community in Argentina. We form a conglomeration. Instead of life, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos, periodically illuminated...
...Eliot: Raft races on Charles, starting at two. Entry parties during the evening...
...confidence needs bolstering. Last week, at the start of a month-long celebration of its soth anniversary, Columbia could-and did-note that among its 2,700 living alumni are 132 newspaper publishers and editors, 46 magazine editors, a score of journalism school deans, ten Pulitzer prizewinners and a raft of New York Timesmen (78 at last count). To celebrate, Columbia lured three big-name journalists to the campus for Doctorates of Humane Letters: Alu nus Herbert Brucker ('24), Hartford Courant editor, newest president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill; and New York...
...When the raft carrying the Prescotts downriver hits the rapids, the screen is awash with churning water, boiling spray. Faster and faster it goes, swooping like a surfboard, with all hands trying vainly to keep trunks, kettles, tent, and a sick boy from flying into the foam as the raft begins to break apart...
...converted tanker, the Queen left Beaumont on Feb. 2, bound for Norfolk and points north, with a full cargo of molten sulphur. The ship's last radio report, on Feb. 3, placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans. Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest, a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. There had been no S 0 S, no warning of trouble. The Sulphur Queen and its crew of 39 had simply disappeared...