Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone, and Soviet admirers dubbed him respectfully the "Western Mo'otov." Laborites accused him of being rigidly antiCommunist, but Home was always ready to negotiate problems when he thought that there was any hope. When dealing with the Russians, said Compleat Angler Home, "I go trying for a fish. If nothing bites, I go back the next day. If a small fish bites, I go after a bigger...
Like What He Is. Last summer he hired a yacht for a vacation cruise of Canadian waters. But he was bored. "Fish don't applaud," he explains. Applause is the only income he really cares about. He particularly enjoys it in the form, say, of the medal recently pinned on him by President Kennedy for his countless appearances before U.S. servicemen during and since World...
...Hebrew for "to the sky"). On El Al's 22 weekly trips over the 5,800 miles from New York to Tel Aviv, the passenger lists are 80% Jewish. El Al corners the groups with what it calls a "sales mating call." The rabbinically supervised menu includes gefilte fish and bagels and lox; there are also potato pancakes for Hanukkah and matzo-ball soup for Passover. The airline enjoys a 55.9% load factor, last year made a $200,000 profit; this was not sensational, but it was better than most other state-owned lines, which are losing money...
...room French provincial mansion in the woodland outside Minneapolis. From this unlikely headquarters, messages went out to the far-flung arms of the biggest U.S. grain dealer: Cargill, Inc. Though it is a secretive, inbred and inconspicuous company, Cargill (pronounced with a hard g, as in fish-gill) is a $1.5 billion-a-year giant with more than enough wheat capacity to handle the entire sale of 150 million bushels to Russia. Despite its size and predominance, it will have to be content with somewhat less than that-the Administration has declared that no company can have more than...
...Iowa, expanded with the railroads and the river barges; today, Cargill's 110 outposts are placed at almost every strategic transportation point in the midcontinent. The family business has been passed down through Cargill's descendants, who built huge grain elevators and expanded into everything from fish-meal processing in Peru to soybean processing in Spain...