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Ever since Red China began baiting its bids for diplomatic recognition with the glittering prospect of trade, some Canadians have shown themselves surprisingly eager to swallow bait, hook and all. Most outspoken of the lot is Toronto's Globe and Mail, whose publisher. Oakley Dalgleish. recently returned from a tour of the Chinese mainland burbling with admiration for the Peking regime. Last week U.S. diplomats wondered if the pro-Peking line of Dalgleish and his fellow apologists might not be swinging the government in the same direction...
...casting in the frowned-upon (because of his heart) altitudes of Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked...
ENRIGHT (talking in the careful phrases of a man who knows that his words are being recorded): There are certain stages we are going to discuss today . . . I'm not going to disclose what the stages are, because I don't want to hold out any bait or anything like it ... I want you to write a piece of paper now to the effect that contrary to what you have said in the past, or written in the past, Dan Enright has at no time disclosed questions, answers, points, anything like...
...including a trip to the Brussels' Fair), one hefty book (The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) published. Working ten to twelve hours daily seven days a week, backed up by four busy secretaries and a research assistant, Hoover even mixed business with a favorite recreation, trolling for the bait-shy Florida bonefish. "You have time between bites," he explained, "to read Government documents." Presumably, the ex-President's year would have been busier yet-if he had not squandered two weeks abed after a gall bladder operation...
...most attractive promotion bait offered this summer is a $1,000 life insurance policy, written by Lloyd's of London to cover "the death by fright of any member of the audience." The movie: Macabre, a pallor game played by a mad M.D. When Macabre's Producer William Castle first tried to insure every human being on earth, Lloyd's was chilly. Lloyd's dickered with Castle over an estimate of the number of deaths that would occur, finally settled for an actuarially comfortable eight, made the premium $15,000. No bereaved heir has yet made...