Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ascent of slugging Outfielder Cleon Jones was less dramatic, but perhaps even more satisfying. A native of Mobile, Ala.?home town of a raft of stars, including Agee, Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey?he starred in high school football and track. Always lacking in self-confidence, he lost what little he had when he joined the defeatist Mets of 1963. Although Jones is a natural line-drive hitter, Manager Westrum made him swing for the fences. Later, Hodges decided to "platoon" him by playing him only against lefthanded pitchers. Cleon's batting average sagged, along with his self-assurance...
...down with a snifter of brandy and provolone. After dinner, preferably goat meat or scampi and Pouilly-Fuissé (1959 or 1961), he has a cigar, reads the newspapers and watches television newscasts, ending up with a late movie. His favorite stars are Alice Faye and-of course-George Raft...
When the Norwegian author-explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed across half the Pacific on a balsawood raft 22 years ago, he recalls, "We on Kon Tiki were thrilled by the beauty and purity of the ocean." During his recent attempt to sail from Africa to Central America in a boat made of papyrus reeds, which he was forced to abandon last month 600 miles from his goal, Heyerdahl's old thrill was replaced by shock. In Manhattan last week, he reported to the Norwegian Mission at the United Nations: "Large surface areas in mid-ocean as well as nearer...
...every morning, he toiled long and hard, pruning his tunes and polishing his words. "For every song I let out," he once said, "there are six in the basket that nobody will ever see." A small (5 ft. 6 in.), tough-talking, chainsmoking man, he reminded some of George Raft, others of a Guys and Dolls bookie. To keep busy in his off hours he took up hobbies (painting, carpentry), and from time to time he expressed the hope that they would help him give up the smoking habit. But he remained a three-pack-a-day man, and last...
...recovery team opened the hatch, tossed in the bulky Biological Isolation Garments (BIGs) and then helped the astronauts out of their spacecraft. On a rubber life raft the astronauts scrubbed down with Betadine, an iodine-based disinfectant. Hoisted by helicopter aboard the Hornet, the astronauts were soon settled in comfortable isolation inside a biologically "clean" van to begin 18 days of quarantine...