Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaching the age of 18 would be examined by the local draft board. Those who passed the physical and mental tests would be assigned a number by the board. After these numbers were assigned, the selective service system would conduct a national drawing. It would put into a "fish bowl" as many numbers as the largest local board had registrants, then draw out each number and make a record of the order in which it appeared. Each board would receive a copy of this list, and the men whose numbers were selected first would be called first by the local...
...Kauai ("The Garden Island") likes to think it has best safeguarded the ancient Hawaiian traditions of hospitality. The "Aloha spirit" has been adulterated on bustling Waikiki with too many cheap grass skirts and plastic leis. But it still thrives on Kauai, where farmers tend their lush taro patches and fish with nets from the reefs much as their forefathers did. Local boys and girls mingle with the young crowd of guests in the Prince Kuhio piano bar of the new Kauai Surf, at Kalapaki Bay, whe ~e the waves come in just right for beginning surfers...
...seem as inclined toward fishless Fridays as their Canadian neighbors. In Manhattan an Ancient Order of Hibernians group celebrated the new regimen over platters of roast beef at an East Side pub. Jesuit-run Boston College is adding meat to its Friday menu. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, fish got a secular show of support: the Harvard Food Services office decided to keep fish on Friday, reasoning that it is "as good...
Restaurateurs specializing in sea food are understandably alarmed. Snaps Edmund Lillys, owner of Manhattan's Gloucester House: "We are upset to see something disturbed that has been around 1,966 years, or something like that."* In the face of the threat, fish producers, canners and distributors have begun to fight back. Except for such giants as the Ralston Purina Co. (Chicken of the Sea and White Star canned tuna) and HJ. Heinz Co. (Star Kist), the industry has been listless in promoting fish, slow in keeping up with innovations in packaging and convenience foods. Warns New York Fishery Council...
Piscine Logic. With that in mind, 40 members of the National Fisheries Institute will meet soon in Washington to plan survival strategy, including a flood of advertising. A campaign of sorts was already under way in Boston newspapers last week. Clarioned Boston Fishing Industry ads, with notably piscine logic: ANY DAY IS FISH...