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...campus of the University of Washington, they got an unusually warm reception. Waiting to greet them was Professor (of Fisheries) Lauren R. Donaldson, their breeder, nurse and public relations man. For these were no ordinary salmon. Conceived on the campus, they were the third generation of college-bred chinooks, selected for vigor, meatiness and quick maturing. Dr. Donaldson hopes to develop them into a race of supersalmon that will forage in the northeast Pacific like high-bred beef cattle on the Nebraska sand hills...
Real Mess. Dr. Donaldson has been improving fish for 31 years. Starting with rainbow trout, a salmon relative, he bred ponderous super-rainbows that weighed 6 lbs. when only one year old, 500 times the weight of ordinary yearling rainbows. He still raises some of these juvenile giants and gives them to the state department of fisheries for secret release in lakes near Seattle. Then he drives out in the early morning to watch the fun. "All of a sudden," he says, "someone will yell like hell when he ties into one of these monsters. Fishing rods get broken...
...have the impression, however, that there is far more apathy and disinterest than propriety in their failure to notice restrictions upon their freedom--an apathy bred, more likely than not, by a considerable increase in wealth since the Communists took over. True, politics seem to be discussed to some extent in private circles as the daughter of an important Zagreb factory manager assured me in Vienna. But, in the same discussion, she mentioned in a nonchalant (sort of "well, of course, Ike is a bit senile") tone, that she is not in the least a Communist but rather a socialist...
...insist, in every article about Katanga, on talking about "mercenaries" and "white-officered troops." And what do you mean by "white"? South Africans, Rhodesians, Congo Belgians, Algerian French born and bred in Africa, probably for two, three or more generations, who have lived and worked their whole life in Africa, are Africans. A white Katangan of Belgian extraction can have the genuine patriotism for Katanga that an American Negro or American of Polish extraction can have for America...
...saddle-sore cowpoke would walk half a block to watch a race between thoroughbreds-skittish, no-account critters that can't do anything but run. But for the chunky, docile quarterhorse, the cowboy has the fond attachment of a co-worker and friend. Bred for blazing speed over extremely short (up to 870 yd.) distances, today's racing quarterhorse is a blood brother of rugged, hard-working range horses. Match races for high stakes have been common ever since the first quarterhorses were broken, and more than one thoroughbred owner has been parted from his bankroll...