Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admiring friend, Rachel Carson, 56, was "a nun of nature, a votary of all outdoors." She also had a rare gift for transmuting scientific fact into lucid, lyrical language. Yet it was only in 1951, after 15 years with the Fish and Wildlife Service-much of the time as editor in chief of its publications-that she published her famous book The Sea Around Us. It was written in hypnotic, susurrant prose; it brimmed with intriguing knowledge; and for a book aimed at a popular audience, it was hard to fault scientifically. The Sea stayed on the bestseller lists...
...recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of life." Dramatically, she pictured a time when the sprays, dusts and aerosols used to control insects, fungi and other foes of plant life would "still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams," finally bringing on the silent spring of her title...
Precisely 90 minutes remained before the scheduled start of a nationwide ail way strike. For nearly four hours, the President of the U.S. had pleaded with management and labor for a 20-day delay in the showdown on their conflicting demands. In the White House Fish Room, newsmen were wearily awaiting the outcome. Now, into that room sauntered a workman who casually set up a TV prompter. On it, in letters two inches high, was printed the news that the strike had been put off for at least 15 days. Moments later President Johnson, appearing haggard, entered the Fish Room...
...Pacific Coast," saltwater fishermen set out to tackle big niarlin and sailfish, and each spring the river mouths along Costa Rica's Caribbean coast are choked with spawning snook and tarpon-so thick that thousands can sometimes be seen roiling the surface of the water. Where the school fish congregate, so do the predators-monster sawfish, and sharks, sharks, sharks. Using only hand lines, fishermen of the Caribbean village of Colorado last year caught 1,800 sharks in less than three months-and shipped the livers to Chinese medicine makers on Formosa...
Colorado (pop. 800) is also the site of Costa Rica's biggest attraction for foreign fishermen: the annual Holy Week tarpon-fishing tournament sponsored by San Jose's Club Amateur de Pesca. The 62 entrants in this year's contest came from such chilly climes as Worcester, Mass., and included a group of 17 from Indiana. Flying into San Jose two weeks ago, they boarded buses, rode four hours to Puerto Viejo -the end of the road. There they packed their gear into dugout canoes equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui...