Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef (20th Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...
Paint on the Curves. The burros and Indians in the town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, where the race started, stared in wonder at the invasion. The palm-fringed streets swarmed with the heterogeneous spawn of the automotive age-sleek Ferraris and squat reef Lancias, souped-up Chryslers and Lincolns and Oldsmobiles, petite Porsches, souped-up Fords. Such blue-chip entries as the Lancias even had their own mobile garage to follow them, a huge trailer complete with machine shop and dormitory...
Hour after hour, the sharks circled the reef. At night the wind blew steadily out of the north, kicking up a chilling spray; during the day, the sun beat down unmercifully on the surviving pilgrims and the two sailors. They had little bundles of water-soaked food which they ate. There was no fresh water. Some pilgrims drank salt water. Four child pilgrims lost their hold on the tower and slipped into the sea. The sharks glided in to claim them...
...Eighth Day. On the fourth day, a sambuk sighted them but could not come close enough to the reef to take them off. Instead, the two sailors and two of the Nigerians swam out to the sambuk, which sailed away-for help, the pilgrims thought. But no help came. The pilgrims did not know it, but the four rescued men, on reaching Port Sudan, had been hidden in the Fellata and told not to talk under threat of death. Another pilgrim fell into the sea and the sharks took him quickly. All the pilgrims were now drinking sea water, praying...
...pilgrims saw a launch. They shouted and waved, but the launch passed them. In despair an old woman fell off the tower into the sea. Hours later the launch reappeared, going the other way. This time its crew spotted the castaways. As the launch hove to just off the reef, one of its Arab crewmen swam to the tower with a line and, one by one, the 14 Nigerians were pulled in. Among the rescued were four women, a four-year-old boy and a baby in arms, but boy and baby soon died...