Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the mud. Schools of bream and bass flopped listlessly in ever shallower hideaways, attracting great white herons from their natural seashore habitat. Vultures and buzzards, turning endlessly in the sky, were glutted by the carnage, leaving to park rangers the unsavory task of carting away thousands of putrid fish...
...followed after Quebec was captured by the British in 1759, their numbers enhanced after 1776 by immigrant American colonials who preferred British rule to U.S. independence. Today 40% of all Canadians are Anglo-Saxons. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, millions more came: Germans and Swedes to fish and till the prairies; Ukrainians, now the fourth largest group in Canada, to found towns with unlikely New World names like Dnieper and New Kiev...
...Clothe the Naked. In Luigi Pirandello's plays, the bait of appearance masks the hook of reality, but the mysterious fish of life is never caught. As Pirandello saw it, man is involved in the futile illusion and the obsessive quest of trying to catch and know his unknowable self...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Conquering the Sea." A look at all the strange and wonderful tools being developed for mankind to exploit the ocean depths-with fish ranches, coal and diamond mines, even hydroelectric stations to generate power...
SCANDINAVIA has opened its salmon-fishing preserves to the public, and sportsmen can buy rights to fish for rates ranging from $35 to $3,000 a week, depending on the richness of the rivers. A placid but entertaining attraction is the "dollar train" from Stockholm to Lapland, a seven-day, $425 railroad cruise through the magnificence of the fiords and mountain country...