Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon until early the next morning. Among those present: 40 emotional Italians of the Corpo Musicale del Dopolavoro Fer-roviario of Milan who nearly blasted the $40,000 tent to pieces with Cam Amati, a musical description of attacking Italian tanks in World War II; three bands of sardine fishermen and rice workers from Portugal, who traveled almost two weeks by bus in order to perform for two days at Kerkrade; the band of the tiny town of Eijsden, Holland, which was accompanied to the concours by 2,000 cheering supporters; the Banda Primitiva of Liria, Spain, whose conductor entertained...
...arrived carrying badly needed Canadian wheat−paid for by Peking−it was not allowed into the harbor at all; the cargo was laboriously transferred by launch. Although Albania has 250 miles of Adriatic coastline, fish are scarce because the regime permits only a handful of politically trustworthy fishermen to venture out, since Italy is only 50 miles away...
...they were more the landscapes of a dream than of nature. No sun bathed them; they seemed to be lit from within. And sometimes a tree or a mountainside would take on the shape of a bird, a face or a giant eye. Gilles painted Ischia's fishermen, but they were as lonely as his gods, as tortured as his Ophelia and Lear. Whatever his subject, it was thick with melancholy...
...tiny island of Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive ash to fall and injure 23 Japanese tuna fishermen-one fatally-on their trawler, Lucky Dragon, which was 14 miles outside the restricted zone. Ogle was a top technical official at Ivy and Castle, ironically considers Castle the test "which gave us more of practical value than any other." The U.S. H-bomb success came a mere nine months before...
MARCH 1, 1954-Biggest U.S. explosion on record (15 megatons). Operation Castle, showers radioactive ash beyond safety zone, burns 23 Japanese fishermen...