Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rinderpest is done for in Nigeria; U.S.-supplied vaccine, shot into 10 million cows, saw to that. In Peru, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, 500,000 school kids get a glass of milk each morning. Fishermen in Kenya are content: the U.S. gave them new boats so they could catch fish twice as fast, and now they only work half as long. But oops! That $2.6 billion sent to Yugoslavia seems to have sunk without a trace. In Jordan a dike that cost the U.S. close to $1,000,000 meanders across the flinty desert for dozens of miles, waiting...
...Fishermen. These are short-term measures at best, and wherever possible, the refugees are sent home or to new resettlement villages after two months in the camps. Those willing to resettle are given a piece of land, housing material, a six-month ration of rice and 3,500 piasters ($47) to help them get started. So far this year, 208,000 refugees have left the camps for new homes. One group of farmers even decided to take up fishing, founded its own fishing village on the shore of the South China...
...against the World Council and ecumenism. The U.S. adherents number about 3,000,000, most of them belonging to Presbyterian and Baptist churches. European followers are far less numerous; the biggest group is the 65,000-member Christian Reformed Church, which draws support from the sobersided Dutch farmers and fishermen of the Zeeland Province...
...carp. The fad caught on last year when the angling parlors mushroomed from a few score to a present-day 539 in the heart of the city. One parlor was installed in a former bar with the pool behind the counter and the bar stools used as perches for fishermen. Saburo Kamekura, manager of an air-condi tioned establishment on the Ginza, To kyo's Fifth Avenue, claims 1,000 cus tomers a day. There, pretty young girls in Bermuda shorts cry "Sugoi! [terrif ic!]" when customers land a big one. Kamekura boasts that he is performing a badly...
...Problem of Inflation. Tubing has now produced its own teen-age gangs. One set of Colorado youths have made life miserable for fishermen along the South Platte River above Denver. Exhilarated by beer and foaming rapids, they race by anglers shouting imprecations and fouling lines...