Word: dees
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...very names evoke the lore and challenge of a classic individual sport: the Dee, the Tay, the Tweed. These famous fishing rivers of Scotland attract some 50,000 anglers a year, most of them lured by hopes of hooking the combative, and tasty, Atlantic salmon...
...Daily Telegraph describes the salmon season, which began in January and continues until November, as "possibly the worst on record." Says a seasoned Scottish fishing guide: "Ye'll have observed that when Charles wants to give his Princess casting lessons he takes her doon to the Dee. But when he wants to catch fish, he makes awa' for Iceland." In fact, the Prince of Wales did better than most other anglers this year when he landed one salmon in only five days of fishing. On average, fishermen have had to spend 18 days in their waterproof wading gear...
...presidential fence-mending trips go, the visit to Donald Dee's place last week was picture perfect. Alighting from he U.S. Marine helicopter in sweltering 90° heat, Ronald Reagan strode accross the front yard of Dee's 500-acre hog farm in central Iowa and shook hands with his smiling host. The President headed for the farmyard, where he gingerly scratched the ear of Shank, an 800-lb. boar freshly scrubbed for the occasion. Then he and his Agriculture Secretary, John Block, perched themselves on a picnic table and chatted amiably with a group of 40 farmers...
Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...
...film's message is underscored inadvertently by the players creating the story. In general, the adult actors perform adequately at best. Dee Wallace, as the mother, appears too confused herself to carry off the confused parent role. The NASA hit squad pops up awkwardly without regard to the rest to the plot. What little acting the white-suited villians do is wooden and stereotypical. But the kids. They are adorable, and appropriately, they make the show...