Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long days and spare quarters, the Jamaicans seem to enjoy their stint at Bolton. For Trevor Brown, 20, a native of Portland, Jamaica, apple picking has been a steady and therefore welcome source of income for the past four years. At home, Brown guides tourists on a bamboo raft down the Rio Grande near Port Antonio, earning as much as $35 a day. But the tourist trade is unpredictable, so in the slack fall season he flies to Miami and from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking apples. Wilbert...
Characteristically, Carter tackled several controversial problems simultaneously when he flew up to New York City early in the week to address the U.N. and confer with a raft of world statesmen. His 35-minute U.N. speech was restrained and unexceptional, although he did announce-without explaining further -that Washington and Moscow "are within sight of a significant agreement" in the SALT talks. The U.S., he said, was "willing to go as far as possible" to limit or cut its nuclear weapons. "On a reciprocal basis," he went on, the U.S. could immediately "reduce them by 10% or 20%, even...
...Juravich, coordinator of freshman intramurals and organizer of the event said yesterday that it is "designed to be non-competitive" in the grand tradition of the Adams House Raft Race; prizes will be awarded in approximately analogous categories...
...unemployed Sacramento warehouseman. He claims to have found two nuggets last month worth $1,500. In search of more, he put on scuba gear and spent four hours under water one Sunday, searching the Merced River near Mariposa with his dredge. On the family's pontoon raft, his wife Joanne painstakingly watched the discharge for the sight of gold. Suddenly she squealed with joy and tumbled overboard in her excitement, but not before she had grabbed an ounce of gold in her fist. His bloodshot eyes glistening, Manion later reckoned that the day's haul, which included...
...selfishness, from the time we realize the small band cannot turn back, the ending is inevitable. The film becomes a study in despair, the voyage an absurd gesture, until at last there is only Aguirre, ranting about his future greatness to an audience of dead men as his drifting raft is overrun by small monkeys...