Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Serious Defeat." The President was angry, and he reverted to a black-and-white view. About an hour after the vote, he made an unusual appearance before the TV cameras in the White House "fish room" to declare: "This is a most serious defeat for every American family, for the 17 million Americans who are over 65. [for] all those Americans who have parents, who are liable to be ill. and who have children to educate at the same time." Speaking over reporters' heads to the nation, he said that "nearly all the Republicans and a handful of Democrats...
...muggy, starlit night in the dusty Ontario lake town of Port Stanley (pop. 1,480). The fish flies swarmed, and the rickety Stork Club Ballroom had just disgorged 800 jazz fans. By 2:25 a.m., all 23 bandsmen had clambered aboard the big silver, red and white bus, followed by Bandleader Stan Kenton carrying a cardboard carton with 30 ham sandwiches. Somebody snapped on the switch of a blue light that signified drinking time, and the bus began to roll...
...Fish Creek, Wis., Peninsula Playhouse: The Armoured Dove, a new play by Nord Riley, about a sort of Major Barbara of the missile...
...tiny island in the South Atlantic last October when a long-dormant volcano poured a river of molten rock toward their thatch-roofed houses. In traveling 6,500 miles to safety in England, they moved nearly a hundred years forward in time. At home, they had lived on a fish-and-potato diet, carded and spun wool by the light of oil lamps, ridden in bullock carts. In their new cottages near the British port of Southampton, they encountered for the first time the 20th century wonders of electric light, store clothes, supermarkets, frozen foods and traffic jams...
...Private Fish. The young executive who used to lunch in a neighborhood coffee shop advances to a private dining room or eats in a secluded club. When he becomes top brass, says Randall, he flies on executive airplanes, misses the conversation of a random seat mate. Even his recreation is isolated: "As chairman, his golf dates are rare, are always arranged in advance by his secretary, and the foursome is invariably selected from not over six possibilities. If duck shooting is his sport, he will be found at a small private club where no uncouth voice is heard...