Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raft, no less. That was even better than the Kon-Tiki expedition. "It was a nightmare, and a beautiful dream," said Willis, and decided to do it again some time. Last week it was the natives of Apia, Western Samoa, who were star tled, as in over the reef came Willis, two cats and raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru. "I wanted to show that a 70-year-old could do what men years younger would never dream of trying and couldn't dp anyway," said he, and prepared to sail on another...
Salt-caked, coral-scraped, sunburned and exhausted, Roberts, a 33-year-old chiropractor, returned to his home in Pensacola, Fla., thoroughly pleased with his fishing trip. The plastic bags in his car held some 25 reef fish, captured alive with his Plexiglas "slurp gun," which is one of the latest pieces of equipment used in that fast-growing and prestigious U.S. hobby: collecting saltwater fish...
...Donovan's Reef...
Donovan's Reef. Boys will be boys in John Wayne movies, and everybody knows what that means: it means they're scared to grow up and be men. But they sure work hard at pretending to, and Big John (who is 56) works hardest of all. At every opportunity he battles a bottle, slugs a stooge, and generally behaves as though a man's-capacity could be measured in whisky and his importance by his punch. But when a woman appears, Big John looks suddenly small and surrounded by unimaginable terrors, like a Boy Scout trapped...
...know-how to read it if they did. The Coast Guard crew at Stepping Stones Light Station off New York City, where Long Island Sound meets the East River, spends a large part of the summer frantically waving a towel to warn sloppy skippers off the nearby reef. The shoal is covered with only a few inches of water, but extends for more than half a mile of deceptively open water. And a great many latter-day skippers operate on the theory that what you can't see can't hurt you. "They...