Word: raft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Team was a humming hive of activity. Six helicopters were tuning up, ready to carry skilled technicians, doctors and frogmen to rescue the astronaut if the capsule splashed near by. If the Freedom 7 should start to sink, frogmen would be ready to slip beneath it and inflate a raft to lift it to the surface. Army amphibious craft were ready to retrieve the capsule if it fell in the surf. Waiting out at sea were 65-ft. Navy speedboats; other special craft were on the alert should the capsule head in the wrong direction and land in the Banana...
Stumbling ashore on Damas Cays, Rafael found a rusty, tumbledown radio tower, apparently a World War II leftover. He slept awhile, then began to build a raft of several large pieces of driftwood, which he tied together with some rusty electrical wire he found. On his third day on the island, the waves washed up a rusty but seaworthy 50-gallon drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve...
...based partly upon Queensly's delicate handling of a controversial subject matter and partly upon his choice of locale. Leslie Fiedler has said, "...the confrontation of Cambridge's Fall into Death and Spring into Love leaves us its startling residue of thunderous denial, the amalgam of Huck and his raft separated by Thomas Moore's "Lolly Rookh" from the black pristine love found in the shoals of the frozen Charles!" Diana Trilling writes, "...disconcerted by the misconception of the tragic hero (ine?) and...foundering in the slough of my husband's anguish, I found it lovely." Norman Mailer's criticism...
...prevail in that struggle, Rusk believes, the U.S. needs only to remember, in effect, that the Eagle has two claws. The U.S., he says, "is not a raft tossed by the winds and waves of historical forces over which it has little control. Its dynamic power, physical and ideological, generates historical forces; what it does or does not do makes a great deal of difference to the history of man in this epoch...
...Skelton Special (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Red roams an imaginary Hollywood Boulevard, bumps unaccountably into Dinah Shore, Jack Paar, Mickey Rooney and George Raft...