Adventures

April, 1976

What really happened, to quote from an ad campaign for a hit movie of 1972, on the Cahulawassee River? Since that body of water exists only in the mind of poet-novelist James Dickey, we can't tell you. We can, however, report what's going on along the real river where the movie version of Dickey's novel "Deliverance" was filmed: It's becoming a hit with the white-water crowd. Playboy Research Editor Tom Passavant describes his adventures on the rapids:Somewhere around the sixth mile of...