Word: thor
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Numbers five and six--John Stubbs vs. Peter Thompson, Clancy Nixon vs. Thor Kayeum: Both crucial matches. Thompson defeated Bacon in five sets last year, and Kayeum edged Stubbs. Kayeum has been playing some of his best squash the last few weeks...
...being bound together with reeds by explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who plans to float them down the Charles River to corroborate the theory that ancient Law School graduates migrated by sea to populate Wall...
...mention dangers that Thor Heyerdahl may face on his new voyage because his reed boat will not show up on radar screens [Nov. 28]. It could be made to appear as big as a destroyer on radar screens by simply wrapping a roll of aluminum foil around each of those beautifully crafted hull points used only for aesthetic purposes. The foil could be laid beneath the outer covering of reed to preserve the "purist" intent of Tigris...
...Thor Heyerdahl, 63, the Norwegian anthropologist, explorer and adventurer, believes in dramatizing his theories. To show that the Polynesian islands could have been settled by ancient mariners from South America, he crossed the Pacific on a balsa raft. To demonstrate that Egyptians might have reached the New World centuries before Columbus, he conquered the Atlantic in a boat made of papyrus. Now Heyerdahl is about to take a reed boat down the Tigris River from the purported site of the biblical Garden of Eden, eventually reach the open sea and either sail to India or East Africa, or sink-whichever...
Died. James Jones, 55, prolific au thor, likely to be best remembered for From Here to Eternity; of heart disease; in Southampton, N.Y. (see BOOKS...