Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent one entire year on a State Department tour of Africa and the Far East "getting to the little villages where the big orchestras and ballet companies can't go." Surviving "the unspeakable pangs of dysentery," they traveled by Jeep, elephant, water buffalo, dugout canoe and bamboo raft, performed before a collective audience of half a million persons and collected hundreds of native songs and instruments...
...raft of Harvard players received honorable mention for the team. End Frank Ulcickas, tackle Joe Jurek, center and captain John O'Brien, and halfback Walt Grant received honorable mention for the offensive team. Linebackers Gene Skowronski and Bob Barrett and deep backs Paul Guzzi and Dave Poe received honorable mention on defense...
Designed to Want. Man is adrift on a raft in a boundless ocean, writes Fowles. "From his present dissatisfaction, he reasons that there was some catastrophic wreck in the past, before which he was happy; some golden age, some Garden of Eden. He also reasons that somewhere ahead lies a promised land. Meanwhile, he is miserably en passage." But if man were to find his Utopia, writes Fowles, he would be much more miserable. For man is made to struggle and yearn: "We are designed to want: with nothing to want, we are like windmills in a world without wind...
DAVID HAYES-Willard, 29 East 72nd. A raft of first-rate sculpture crowds the galleries this week; at least 13 shows are worth a prolonged look.* David Hayes's is one. In his second New York exhibition, he proves convincingly that, at 33, he belongs in the top rank of important young sculptors. Hayes, an American, has a studio outside Paris, where he hammers and welds forged steel into mat-black shapes of brute strength. His works are small but weighty, simple but bursting with power. His Seated Beast, with only two legs, has a yowling, cavernous mouth...
...atomic centers as Caltech and France's Curie Institute, the Chinese have the scientific know-how to continue. Because of Russian aid from 1950 to 1959 (when the Moscow-Peking split first fissured), they also have a network of operating uranium mines, at least four nuclear reactors, a raft of Soviet-trained technicians, and a rudimentary basic industrial plant that can furnish most of the products needed to maintain a small atomic-bomb program...