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...prefers to see itself as egalitarian though it is much impressed by class. Buck and Jim turned their raft into a royal bedchamber for the King and the Duke, Grace Kelly got a regal send-off when she left Hollywood to become Princess to the world's finest amusement park, and the Kennedys were empurpled by the press...
...summer of 1975, William F. Buckley Jr. made an Atlantic crossing - chronicled in his book Airborne - aboard his 60-ft. cutter Cyrano. Says Buckley: "All adventure is now reactionary." With loran, radar, autopilot and vintage wines, Buckley was not exactly blown across the ocean on a naked raft. Even the most venturesome solitary sailors today - men like Sir Francis Chichester, who circumnavigated the globe in 1966-67 in his 53-ft. boat Gipsy Moth IV - have the advantage of sophisticated hull and sail design. Says Tristan Jones, a small, bearded Welsh sailor who has circumnavigated the globe three times, crossed...
...group are dreamily yet viciously floating through, starving as the Indians grow bolder. In the end, no one is left but Aguirre, who is last seen shouting his plan for the conquest of the entire continent to the indifferent jungle, as hundreds of marmosets swarm over his waterlogged raft...
...Raft Race--Charles River this afternoon...
...There's some raft race on the Charles this Saturday...George and the entire family will be participating in the competition...