Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replaced ice-warning signs. On the Fairbanks outskirts moose calves, abandoned by their mothers, bawled like babies, and into a downtown pool hall waddled a full-grown porcupine. It was 80° in the Panhandle's Ketchikan, and 60-lb. salmon flopped through the water in search of fishermen. Farther up the Panhandle, in the capital city of Juneau (pop. 7,200), gardens danced with lilacs and daffodils, and folks admired the new paint job that glistened on the twelve-story Mendenhall apartment building (preparation, some gossiped, for the filming of Edna Ferber's Ice Palace...
Like a Lead Balloon. Gripped in my hand as we went through the power dive and pullout was a 4-oz. lead sinker of the kind used by bottom fishermen. Though it cost only 7? at the base PX, it made a far more vivid indicator of the zero-gravity state than the electronic accelerometer in which the Air Force has invested millions. As my bottom, squeezed to insensible bloodlessness during the 4-g pullout, rose from the seat cushion, I felt the exhilaration of restored circulation (and noted the lasting aptness of the old barnstormer's motto...
...elated with Sea Hunt's showing, will doubtless keep Bridges going off the deep end next year. He will continue to expose marine-insurance frauds, nab below-surface smugglers of aliens, rescue other hapless souls trapped in the deep, cut short careers of skindiving robbers who prey on fishermen...
Another rule: no more than 72-lb. test line for anglers who weigh under 200 Ibs.; no more than null test line for the heavyweights. Gifford has nothing but explosive contempt for "muscleheads" who insist on fishing for saltwater monsters with "rope." He explains, between oaths: "Most fishermen aren't strong enough to handle 39-thread (130-lb. test line) and keep pressure on a fish. I've seen them taken off the boat dead or go back home and die of a heart attack. Secondly, rope doesn't give the fish a fair chance...
...bill providing a flat 16 extra weeks' compensation (TIME, April 28), airily ruling out repayment by the states. The Democrats boosted the bill's cost about three-quarters of a billion dollars by the 16-week ruling and by specifying coverage for 900,000 seasonal laborers, fishermen, government employees and others, who cannot now qualify for state compensation payments. The Democratic version won House Speaker Sam Rayburn's approval. And it headed for the floor under the aegis of Ways & Means Chairman Mills, who as head of a prestige-heavy committee could expect his recommendations, merit aside...