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...single life raft, built to hold 25 people, floated within reach (four others sank with the severed wing or drifted away), and onto it clambered 51 men and women. As water sloshed into the bobbing raft, Navigator Samuel Nicholson screamed, "Bail, for God's sake!" One man tried to scoop the water out with his wallet. For the most part, discipline was excellent, but there were exceptions. One survivor tried to pull a woman aboard, but "men poured over us. She kept crying, 'Please let me on the raft,' but men kept coming. I couldn...
After more than five hours, a 14-ship rescue flotilla from five nations converged on the scene, and the Swiss freighter Celerina began taking on survivors. Three on the raft died of injuries. Twenty-one others, most of them painfully burned, were airlifted by helicopter to a Canadian aircraft carrier. Of the 76 persons aboard the plane, 48 were saved...
...earth-circling trips of the astronauts and cosmonauts were almost as passive as floating down a river on an oarless raft. Making a rendezvous in space will have to be learned by long, expensive and dangerous practice, The basic trainers will...
Still, unless and until the bodies bob up in the water, there would remain the possibility of a successful escape. One woman, for example, reported seeing three men on a raft; police gave it a good try, but found neither men nor raft. And, as for the chagrined officials of Alcatraz, they had learned at least one lesson from the tablespoon trio: start counting the silver before, not after, the guests leave...
Okeefenokee is an idyl, rather than a satirist's world. There is a lovely radiant idleness about all those scenes which show the characters lazily fishing, or sleeping on a raft--"The S.S. Kenneth G." What shapes the boundaries of the idyl is a distrust of all the official frauds and postures that keep the real world together, all the speeches and slogans and generals and college songs and national anthems and figures like the Minute Man and Senators. The termite walking along with Pogo states Okefenokee's view of matters pithily--"It'll be a long time afore they...