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...Date Bait...
Associate Editor Bob Jones, who wrote the Essay, says that he always spits on the bait when he goes fishing, and he insists the stunt pays off. As for Senior Editor Bob Shnayerson, for years he kept a tattered grey sweater in his office and wore it whenever he worked on major stories. This week the sweater disappeared and Bob worried all the while he edited the Essay. "Lost," he kept muttering. "All lost...
...this week on their annual spawning run, the town's 16 hotels and motels are booked solid, and a city ordinance had to be passed to keep trailers and trucks off the streets at night. Charter boats are charging $25 for half a day. This year the local bait shop, Fishermen's Center, which sold $1,300 worth of lures on one recent Saturday, is open 24 hours...
...Cool Command. So far, Nixon has rejected the bait. He is consciously playing the statesman, in cool command of his passions and his party. He is aware that controversial stands would endanger one flank of support or the other. So far, he has succeeded in holding the liberal Republicans who opposed him for the nomination. He is more worried about the other flank. To prevent wholesale defections of Republicans and disgruntled Democrats to Wallace, he has, consequently, adopted a "yes, but" attitude. He is for the non-proliferation treaty, but against ratification just now?a position that could...
...long. Young actually brought the fish to gaff six times. Each time the gaff tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire was so discombobulated that he "bird's-nested" his reel; the line snapped. "It's just as well," he sighed. "Otherwise I would have lost all that good line...