Word: fishermen
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...fishermen, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea may be just another fish story. Not to Robert Clarke, 58, a civil engineer for whom a pleasant afternoon of trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young...
...American pilot and professional fisherman on the side, who qualified with an 82-lb. Pacific sailfish on threadlike 5-lb. test. In Australia, the Sydney Game Fishing Club has just started a Fifteen-to-One Club, and President John S. Quill says: "In the past year, a dozen fishermen would have qualified...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "The Lonely Dory-men-Portugal's Men of the Sea." A saga of the 3,250-mile journey to the Davis Straits of Greenland that Portuguese fishermen have made annually for 500 years...
...coins and work them into magic. Rather, it is bringing words back to their original source. . . . Words began, in a sense, as magic" (at a time when "light" actually flashed, and "night" was darker than now), and later assumed abstract meanings: "Language did not come from libraries," but from fishermen, fields and dawn. "We know men sang before they talked. . . . We feel the last line of the first chapter of Finnegan's Wake could only have been written after centuries of literature. But there was a time when words meant something as beautiful...
Kachcha Tivu, a square-shaped island nesting among the waves of the Palk Strait between India and Ceylon, is about a fifth as large as New York City's Central Park. One-half mile long and barely one-half mile wide, it serves mostly as a fishermen's stopover and a smugglers' base. Once a year pilgrims from Ceylon and India come to the island to pay homage to its patron saint, St. Anthony, in a tiny church that measures only 12 ft. by 14 ft. and can hold at most 100 worshipers. Last week Kachcha Tivu...