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These explorers allegedly set foot in the New World around 135 A.D. "There was more than one boatload," Cyrus H. Gordon said last Sunday. "Perhaps it was a two-way affair, with some colonists returning to the Old World to spread the news. We do not know how long this colony lasted...
...Harvard has beaten the M.I.T. boat twice this year, and should expect little trouble from the London Rowing Club, which leads a flock of local English entries. A west German eight is also competing and the presence of the Garda Siochana, a boatload of husky Dublin policemen, is not unexpected...
...drifting powerless "somewhere in Long Island Sound." After fruitlessly combing the Sound with search planes and patrol vessels, the Coast Guard finally located him, three days later, 100 miles out in the open Atlantic. That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like the boatload of hippies who put to sea from Boston last year with only a homing pigeon for communication. When the weather turned bad, the hippies released the bird. Eventually they were rescued off the New Jersey coast...
...rest of the movie, filmed in Hong Kong and at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, offers picturesque backdrops as a substitute for the subtle erosion of character. After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver. In the Malay Archipelago, he saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...
...hardly mentioned new Russian economic aid for Cuba-which will be needed in massive amounts to prevent destruction of an economy that used to provide one of the hemisphere's highest standards of living. Last week a new boatload of 750 refugees landed in Miami with reports of ever higher prices, tighter rations and lower wages. "Cuba is a madhouse," said one bitter arrival. "Our Russian 'experts' live like landlords, we Cubans live like slaves...