Word: fishing
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...folks back in Arizona. He has a reputation for quick, effective replies to constituents' letters. Through his efforts and his influence on the Appropriations Committee, Arizona has received vast federal funds for dams and irrigation projects, military bases and airfields, Indian school construction, special social-security payments and fish hatcheries. Says Vice President Lyndon Johnson: "Carl Hayden has smiled through untold millions for the people of Arizona...
...Astaurov figures that his techniques will soon be advanced enough to try on sturgeons. He plans to start with crude caviar-unfertilized eggs that have been stripped from the female fish. If he succeeds in forcing the eggs to produce females only, the fish that graduate from scientific hatcheries will gradually dominate the sturgeon population. The only males left to swim with the caviar-rich females will be the product of old-fashioned natural spawning in waters unsupervised by the state...
...basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket," says Knocko. "Those baskets didn't have any oranges or grapefruit or nuts in 'em. It was a yard of dried fish and a bag of potatoes and maybe a little bag of onions." Friends still recall seeing young John McCormack crouched on a curbstone, reading by the flickering light of a gas street lamp. He devoured dozens of Dick Merriwell* adventures, and he retains a reverence for the rags-to-riches novels...
Henny Penny was now screaming. She calmed herself and continued: "But I love the people of this country. I love the newspaper boy on the corner, the fish-monger with his song, the little child eating popcorn. Ah, people of this kingdom, I love...
Unorthodox Style. Part Indian, raven-haired Kenny McLean busted his first bronc-and took his first fall-at eleven on his father's cattle ranch in tiny (pop. 500) Okanagan Falls, B.C. "There wasn't much to do in 'Okay Falls' except hunt and fish,", Kenny explains, "so my brother and I built a chute and started riding." A natural athlete with superb coordination and balance, Kenny quickly learned to keep his feet loose in the stirrups, developed an unorthodox, righthanded riding style * that scores points with the judges and -baffles his fellow cowboys. Surprise...