Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imagine the natives' surprise in 1954 when a grizzled old American William Willis, then 61, hit the beach on Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa, after floating 6,400 miles across the Pacific-on a raft, no less. That was even better than the Kon-Tiki expedition. "It was a nightmare, and a beautiful dream," said Willis, and decided to do it again some time. Last week it was the natives of Apia, Western Samoa, who were star tled, as in over the reef came Willis, two cats and raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru...
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Moviedom's star gangsters-Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and Paul Muni...
...terrorized isolated settlers. The British, with well-conceived malice aforethought, were trying hard to stem the westward surge of the energetic new Americans. They came in on foot along Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road or down the Ohio River on flatboats. A flatboat, though little more than a raft thrown together at the headwaters of the Ohio for a one-way trip, could carry a family or two with children, slaves, cattle, even a wagon. "The lowly raft had become an ark sweeping a whole people into possession of an empire," writes Historian Van Every in the third installment...
...emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance, police cars and a posse of excitable civilians mobilize into an armada of ineptitude. Finally Gig commandeers a blimp, has himself lowered on a life raft, grabs the flyaway as he floats...
What happens at the end is not worth dwelling on. Briefly, the sea, the desert, the raft, etc., suddenly and inexplicably become big, clumsy symbols. At that point the play instantly loses all its life and laboriously struggles to its pretentious finish...