Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother sold home-churned butter from door to door to help meet the mortgage and insurance payments. Billie Sol made up his mind early in life that he was going to be rich. While other West Texas farm boys were thinking about shooting crows or catching fish after the chores were done, Billie Sol was precociously thinking up deals. His father fondly remembers an event that took place when Billie was about twelve: "I was plowing behind a team of horses, and he came out there to talk to me. I remember he was barefoot...
...application is the outcome of Britain's complicated negotiations with the Six. If London's bid falls through. Norway would pull out. Otherwise, Oslo will start negotiating for membership terms this summer-and the bargaining should not be difficult. Half of Norway's most important exports (fish, metals, paper) are already bought by Common Market customers. In addition, Norway's highly developed hydroelectric power system would fill a gap in the energy needs of the Six. The hardest bargaining will be over Norway's desire to protect its fishing fleet-foreign fishing boats now must...
While the AEC and the military are claiming their blocks of information, a ship manned by scientists from the University of Washington is gathering fish, plankton and other oceanic fauna and flora to check for radiation effects. Specimens will be sent to Seattle for further study. A team from the U.S. Public Health Service is standing by to treat and study any unfortunate humans who tangle with test radiation...
...Russian language. After two years, they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river fish Astyanex Mexicanus to total darkness produces hyperplasia and reduction in the relative number of pituitary basophiles." Caltech's awed President Lee A. DuBridge reports that most of his 1952 freshmen "would have flunked dismally in competition with our freshmen of today-except, of course, if the freshman of ten years...
...this has crippled the Laotian economy. The black-market rate of the local currency, the kip, is soaring toward twice the legal rate; the price of rice has doubled; the price of fish, vegetables and oils has jumped even higher. These were the facts that sent Phoumi, Premier Boun Oum and a clutch of other top officials to Bangkok in a desperate search for help from Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat...