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...dirty water of the Charles was further fouled yesterday by the occasional addition of polluted Harvard-Radcliffe students during the Ivy and World championship raft race. The raft race, elegantly sponsored by Adams House, was an ostentatious show of nautical plummage which enthralled large crowds around the river area...
...whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth in the pantry to be served during the eight-day Passover, one joke circulating on board was that, if necessary, the passengers could always float to safety on a raft of unleavened bread...
...contain the largest gas and oil reserves of any country in the world. Almost every day brings new discoveries. Geological maps are outdated as soon as they are printed. Scientists now believe that the entire region, equivalent in size to all of North America, is like a giant raft floating...
...diabetic patient entered the office of TV's Dr. Marcus Welby last week with a raft of problems: dizzy spells, headaches, a surge of excessive drinking, irritability and the impending breakup of his marriage. The diagnosis: not another run-of-the-medical-show rare disease, but an inability to cope with a confused sexual identity. Welby thus became at least the fourth show this season to deal with the once-closeted subject of homosexuality...
...more seats than Diefenbaker's conservatives in 1963, but for the next five years, Pearson's Cabinet seemed to lurch from one headline-making crisis to another. He survived each potential disaster, largely by leaving his ministers to fight their own battles; meanwhile, he presided over a raft of social legislation intended to create what he called "the Good Society." In 1968 he relinquished the reins of the government and leadership of the Liberal Party, and was succeeded by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then Justice Minister. Pearson took on one final diplomatic task: heading a World Bank Commission...