Word: rafted
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...sorriest example is at CBS, which became the Bumpkin Network in the 1960s, then dropped a raft of popular shows in the early 1970s in deference to the urban preferences of advertisers. Of late CBS has been hearkening to the heartland again, with Dallas and Dukes of Hazzard and, next Tuesday, a two-hour Return of the Beverly Hillbillies. The film is, alas, the resurrection but not the life. CBS appears to assume that Hillbillies appealed chiefly to yokels, dullards and children, when in fact it was a secret favorite of some college professors and was indebted to the populist...
...dangling from every webbed belt, the youngsters here plunge into seven days of whirlwind activity. They compete in a wilderness decathlon, pitch horseshoes, brand leather, play soccer and Frisbee, build a bridge without any rope, set up a tent blindfolded, run an obstacle course with arms tied, fish, canoe, raft, fire air rifles on a marksmanship range...
...Dorado: a 19th century mining town lovingly restored down to the last curlicues on its old gingerbread houses. It sits amid meadows, streams and mountains that seem to have been made for everything from hiking to hang gliding, from hooking a robust trout to shooting the rapids on a raft or glimpsing a rare bighorn sheep...
...Cambridge City Council began its fight to win relief from Proposition 2 1/2-induced cuts in local property taxes Monday, sending a raft of requests for new taxes and exemptions to the state legislature...
DIED. Raoul Walsh, 93, prolific movie director who won acclaim for such silent film classics as What Price Glory? and Sadie Thompson before mastering the high-adventure thriller (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) that helped establish the tough-guy images of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and George Raft; of a heart attack; in Simi Valley, Calif...