Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FISH CREEK, WIS. Peninsula Playhouse: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, through...
...Tropical Fish Hobbyist Herbert Axelrod [July 29], TIME says "he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas are not man-eaters." This is not in accord with my childhood memories of placing my hand against the glass wall of the piranha tank in the hometown aquarium for the thrill of watching these aggressive Lilliputians try to attack the hand...
Thomson takes charge of an organization that markets stocks with the same detail and cost consciousness that the A. & P. applies to tuna fish and canned peas. Among Merrill Lynch's major divisions...
...year future, scientists are already busy with new ways to feed the hungry planet. Los Angeles' Rand Corp. feels confident that fish will be herded like cattle and raised in offshore pens, that kelp, seaweed, plankton and microscopic sea plants will be grown by divers living for months at a time in undersea bunkhouses. Oilmen have lately discovered how to derive a high-grade, edible protein from petroleum. The U.S. Army has figured out how to irradiate meats to preserve them for three years-a development of vast potential for refrigeration-shy countries. Would people eat such stuff? Happily...
Axelrod undertakes yearly expeditions to the tropics. In the Amazon jungle, his favorite fish-finding territory, he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas (which he sells for $50) are not man-eaters. In fact, about the only place he finds hazardous is the U.S., where he lives in an expensive, theoretically bombproof, glass-and-concrete house on the Jersey shore. There, with unlisted phone numbers and safe from advice-seeking laymen and other "bores," Axelrod can, and does, toss off as many as four T.F.H. booklets over a weekend...