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...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...
...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...
...evoke only the blandness of the architect's original blueprints. But a certain carnival atmsphere has begun to emerge. The Cheri lobby functions something like a county fair. Tickets for each picture are sold in their respective kiosks. There is a huge refreshment stand stranded like a useless life raft in the center of the floor. Off to one side, there is what pretends to be both a sidewalk café' and an ice cream parlor. Remnants of an art exhibition are occasionally displayed on the walls. People mill about, others line up at the various entrances. They are generally...
...eggs and fish until his rescue, then went through painful plastic surgery for injuries he had received when his face "got mixed up with the instrument panel." As he sailed home at last on leave, his boat was torpedoed, and he spent another day and a night on a raft, chest-deep in water, before his second rescue. Today, in his amiably crumpled face, Gorton proudly wears the scars of his ordeal...
...daredevil racing driver and America's World War I ace of aces, later applied his bravura to business when he took over Eastern Air Lines. He survived a dizzying number of auto and plane crashes, one of which led to his spectacular 24-day nightmare in a rubber raft in the Pacific in 1942. Unfortunately, Pilot Rickenbacker's prose does not fly; it won't even roll. The irascible old individualist makes his life sound dully plausible...