Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record held by none other than her husband. The feat qualified her for membership in sport fishing's most prestigious organization: the Ten-to-One Club, started in 1960 by the Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club and limited to "those anglers who, unaided, set the hooks, fight and bring to gaff a fish weighing ten times the wet test of the line used...
...armed with nothing more substantial than fly rods basically designed for fresh-water trout. Surprisingly, they sometimes make a catch. Off Ecuador last year, Lee Wulff patiently cast to 20 striped marlin before he finally snagged a 148-lb. beauty with his $12 fly rod and $20 reel. That fight took a mere 4½ hours. Stu Apte has a 151-lb. tarpon to his credit, caught on a fly rod with a 12-lb.-test leader. Bob Zwirz, 42, a fishing writer, actually used the same fly rod last year to catch a 5-lb. brook trout in Canada...
...been wronged can usually sue the fellow who did it to him. But what if a complicated legal fight is necessary to secure satisfaction, and its cost promises to be far more than the amount recovered? Sometimes in such cases, the only answer is a legal phenomenon called a class action-that is, a suit filed by the person wronged on behalf of himself and unnamed hundreds or thousands of others who can be classified with him as similarly wronged...
...This is his big chance, but he blows it-first with his bugle, when he wrecks a scene by continuing to blat out battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood's blackest blacklist. It is inscribed instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens...
...could stay and fight it out in court," Peter A. Callaway, a third-year Divinity School student and president of the House, said yesterday, "but we're leaving as soon as possible. We want to direct our efforts toward the kids rather than toward the principle of the case...