Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ferry, a little girl's wicker basket is accidentally knocked overboard by a passenger. Like the owl and the pussycat, she and a young boy go to sea in pursuit, navigating their inflated raft by a primer-simple map of the six continents. When they want to go to the Red Sea it turns out to be red; the Black Sea becomes black. At last they arrive at a place where, the girl complains, "they forgot to color the water." An island rises from the clear waves, and the voyagers suddenly find themselves beached in a magical, adult-free...
...roofed-over raft spent a leisurely month making its way down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to St. Louis, manned by 14 teen-age boys and three congenial supervisors. It hardly seemed probable that on such an idyllic summer expedition, the boys were there only because a court said they had to be. But that was indeed the case. All 14 were juvenile delinquents - two-and three-time offenders from chronic truants to an armed robber...
...where they must spend the weekend together. There they play ball and hike under careful supervision by a staff more interested in rehabilitation than in punishment. Every night there are group discussions of problems at school or at home. Each year the high point of the program is the raft trip...
Most common complaint of the travelers is that the trips are too long. But Probation Officer David Cook, director of the program, points out that it is only during the final week or two that real unity develops. "The raft is perfect for group therapy," he says. "You can control almost all the pressures on the boys." After the only incident of trouble on the latest journey-some swearing in a Y.M.C.A.-the guilty boy was made to feel so unhappy about letting his buddies down that he punished himself by standing alone for an hour in the corner...
...police the safety of its largest single industry-transportation. Under the chairmanship of Joseph O'Connell Jr., 62, a tax lawyer who has been in and out of government since 1933, the safety board has not only imposed some order on the safety work of Washington's raft of regulatory agencies; it has also confounded the skeptics who thought it unequal to its herculean task...