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Three stories dovetail in this small book. One of them involves the ordeal of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on a Colombian destroyer. He was swept overboard and into the Caribbean, along with seven other crew members, on Feb. 28, 1955, and endured ten days in a life raft before swimming ashore to what would become a hero's welcome. Once the cheering had died down, Velasco offered to sell his account to El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota. A young reporter named Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent some 120 hours interviewing the survivor and shaping his recollections into a first...
...reaches a raft and decides, Crusoe-like, "to make an inventory of my belongings." These include a wristwatch, some keys, three business cards from a store in Mobile and no food or water. He guesses that he is some 50 miles from his home port and will be rescued in two or three hours, but still worries, "It seemed an extraordinarily long time to be alone at sea." Ten days later, having swallowed seawater and a few pickings of raw fish, he lands with a cargo of extraordinary impressions...
...There is the Adams House Raft Race, which beginning this year will be co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Council. Also, each fall the house has an interesting Halloween dance, and every spring we have a traditional waltz...
...this wasn't just any old council meeting over raft races, big fingers, chocolate milk, and the like. In this session the 88 overworked council members were supposed to dole out $24,000 in grants to various student organizations, a process which is the council's most important responsibility. If the grants budget were not implemented at that meeting, more than 60 organizations would have been left hanging in limbo, until the next council meeting three weeks from...
Responding, chairman Offutt says the student government may need to take out liability insurance for the Raft Race because of the injuries that could occur if participants grew too rowdy. What began as the Adams House Ratt Race was changed to the Harvard Adams House Ratt Race when the council took over and was changed to the Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race because the exclusion of Radcliffe offended Lakhdhir, who thought Radcliffe should be an integral part of the race. Council members revelled in the pronunciation of HRAH as "hurrah" in referring to the annual rite of spring along...