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...supply all meals, and the fare is fine. The men on the Ann Blessey polish off inch-thick steaks several times a week. Lunch one day last week on the Hawkeye consisted of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, tamale pie, green beans, pineapple upside-down cake and fresh bread. "The cook's probably working harder than anybody," says Dennis Drury, captain of the Cooperative Vanguard...
...moral commandos who have been disrupting fox and stag hunts since 1963. (Their campaign has been categorized by one neo-Wildean observer as "the implacable in search of the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.") In the latest issue of the association's magazine, H.S.A. Committee Member Ralph Cook described Britain's 3,380,000 recreational fishermen as villains who lure "unsuspecting sentient creatures onto sharp-barbed hooks." The magazine called on the H.S.A.'s 3,500 members to frustrate anglers by peppering the water with pebbles, posting fake health notices at fishing spots and scaring potential...
...National Angler's Council, which claims 750,000 members, would like Cook and his friends to fish in other waters. Says N. A.C. Executive Director Peter Tombleson: "We would not condone any violence. But we can't stand by the elbow of every angler to control him." Tombleson's alarm was echoed by Don Thompson, director of the Salmon and Trout Association, who says of his fellow fishermen, "These are not old codgers in pink coats riding on horses. These are young, active, fit people and they're not going to stand for being pushed around...
...never examined by anyone who could speak Chinese. Nearly three decades went by before anyone even tried to understand. In 1978, a social worker at a mental hospital in Manteno, Ill., took Tom to a Chinese restaurant, where he had a conversation in Cantonese dialect with the cook. There was nothing wrong with Tom, the cook told the hospital staff, setting in motion a four-year battle in the state courts to win his release. Tom's long nightmare had begun when, suffering from tuberculosis, he was admitted to a sanatorium. Because what he said seemed incomprehensible...
...figures, and passages about them are the most interesting in the book Ferdinand Magellan, who "with five barely seaworthy ships would face rougher seas, negotiate more treacherous passages, and find his way across a broader ocean" than any previous explorer, when he sought to circle the globe; Captain James Cook, first to sail to Antarctica, "a frigid continent girded by icebergs, some the size of mountains, others smaller,...all tossed and churned by gutsy winds and unpredictable heavy seas"; Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, "a quixotic archaeologist with a beautiful wife directing a hundred and fifty rebellious workmen on the exotic...