Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always there, he's always big, and he'll eat anything-including the intrepid angler if he gets half a chance. In Australia, where 115 swimmers have been killed by sharks in the past 65 years, the shark has long been considered the king of game fish. "Nothing compares to it," insists Sydney Businessman Peter Goadby. "It's wonderful to pit yourself against a creature so big and powerful, so perfectly designed for his position in life." In South Africa, where surf casters hook into 700-lb. sharks close to Durban's most popular bathing beaches...
Requiem. There are six extraspecial sharks that have earned a place in the International Game Fish Association's official list of sporting fish-all six of which, incidentally, belong to the "requiem" family (a tony way of saying that they are hungry for human meat). Smallest is the porbeagle, a toothy rascal that inhabits the North Atlantic and grows to a mere 600 Ibs. There is the slender blue shark, a handsome indigo in color and up to 800 Ibs. of pure ferocity; the weird-looking thresher, which batters its prey senseless with an enormous scythelike tail and comes...
Then there is the mako, probably the flashiest fighting fish in the sea. A snaggle-toothed bruiser (record: 1,000 Ibs.) that roams far offshore in both the Atlantic and Pacific, the mako can swim at 40 m.p.h., bite clean through a 500-Ib.-test wire leader, leap 20 ft. out of the water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death...
Thirteen keeps diaries, and tropical fish (A month, at most); scorns jumpropes...
...CRIMSON began to print reports from the United Press on its front page every morning. The big issue in 1937-1938 and in the following two years was America's role in the world conflict that seemed more and more inevitable. A debate be between isolationist Republican Rep. Hamilton Fish '10 and Farmer-Labor Rep. John T. Bernard, who favored collective security, drew a large crowd. Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, just returned from a trip to the Far East, warned in a CRIMSON article that Japan's quarrel with China was far more serious than generally believed...