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...underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into the air, and bags a butterfly for dinner. The angler fish, looking like nothing but a clump of seaweed, sprouts a fishing pole from its nose, and dangles a tempting piece of built-in bait before a passing mullet. Conclusion: mullet into gullet like a bullet...
...worried Hawaiians, waiting for the I.L.W.U. to bait the Eastland subcommittee (and probably damage, in the Senate's eyes, territorial hopes for early statehood), the substantial changes suddenly seemed grimly unsubstantial...
...Ensenada, Mexico, three crewmen of the American fishing boat Sportsman were taken into custody by the Mexican coast guard after Captain E. W. Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...
...toward a candidate who can bring him delegates in the convention, e.g., Williams. Stevenson, confident of nomination, is inclined toward a running mate who can perhaps bring him a new bloc of votes in November, e.g., Kennedy. In short, is the vice-presidency to be reward or bait? The 1956 assumption: bait...
...Million for Now. For Studebaker the bait was equally tempting: $35 million in cash from Curtiss, enough to keep the company in business. Curtiss will buy all Studebaker's defense inventories (mostly jet engine parts), take a twelve-year lease on two plants at Utica, Mich, and South Bend, Ind. In addition, Studebaker's bank credit (it has already borrowed $29.8 million) will be raised to $45 million, thus giving it a total of $50 million for immediate needs...