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...some $658,000 for the salvage operations and, after some sharp diplomatic words, the Swedes agreed to let the sub go. The episode embarrassed not only the Soviets; the Swedes did not explain how a submarine of 1950s vintage had managed to penetrate its waters undetected until a passing fisherman in a dory looked over and there she was, atop the rocks...
...following morning, Fisherman Bertil Sturkman got a rude surprise. Rowing his dory past Little Horse Island, a rocky nodule in the Blekinge cluster 330 miles south of Stockholm, he sighted a 250-ft. Soviet "Whiskey"-class patrol submarine, No. 137, hard aground about 10 yds. offshore. Sturkman rowed on to deliver news of his find, and thus began an international fuss worthy of the 1966 comedy film The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming...
...Sunday school. This year's entries in the Sanctity Sweepstakes focus on the struggle between warriors of the Word and the scheming princes of the Roman Empire. Peter and Paul (CBS, April 12 and 14) covers the crucial three decades after the death of Jesus, when a Galilean fisherman solidified his authority over the church, and a Cilician Jew spread Christ's teachings throughout the Mediterranean world. Masada (ABC, April 5-8) begins a few years later and chronicles the last desperate stand, in a Judean fortress, of 960 Jews against the more than 10,000 soldiers...
Back on shore other fishermen are already congratulating themselves on their escape. Will they go back to fish ing once the ice refreezes? Fishing maniacs aside, these are hard tunes in the Great Lakes states. A rescued fisherman says: "I need to fish to feed my family." This year has seen the revival of the Depression-era ice-fishing "township" called Smeltonia, near Boyne City, Mich. In Ohio, jobs are scarce, and after a year of recession and high unemployment, benefits are running...
...companies, including the Fruit-of-the-Month Club and Jackson & Perkins, one of the country's best rose breeders. The fruit, the roses, various fancy foods and dwarf pines are sold by mail order all over the world. The ENJOY SHAKESPEARE ad was dreamed up by a celebrated fisherman named David Bascom, John Holmes, Bear Creek's president, and Vice President David Stump, an escapee from Orange County, Calif. The job offered is for Bear Creek's in-house advertising agency. "When we set up the agency back in 1961," says Stump, "we had to keep...