Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Western countries, often as a result of the penetration that Allied intelligence agencies have made at many levels of all the Communist espionage groups. Other tips come from the steady stream of defectors to the West; most are small fry, but now and then a big fish comes along. Only last week, the West Germans disclosed that Guenter Maennel, a senior official of East Berlin's HVA, had recently sneaked across the boundary, bringing with him details of his espionage unit in East Berlin as well as the names of 14 Communist agents in Africa, Scandinavia...
...this large, well-illustrated American edition of the famous French encyclopedia of food and cooking are recipes for almost everything edible, definitions of culinary terms, and such curiosa as a description of what Louis XIV liked to eat for dinner (the fifth course consisted of various fresh-water fish cooked in pastry, and was intended to remove the taste of the larks, ortolans, thrushes, capons, woodcocks, young turkeys, young hares, sweetbreads, ham, forcemeats, hot pâtés and fritures that had preceded it). Its completeness may be judged from the fact that it contains not only an entry...
...Logos story specifically deplores the meals served on Friday and Saturday. It says the option of most or fish on Friday "seems to have almost disappeared. To be sure, there was a choice last Friday night; but it was between two types of fish, both equally unpalatable to the majority...
...demise of the Friday meat-fish option could be overlooked "if well prepared meat meals were served on the other six days of the week," the story says. "Unfortunately, the current trend has been toward excessive amounts of bread and potatoes in an unsuccessful attempt to compensate for the inferior main dish...
...ambitious young scientists, Antarctica is thus a promised land, stuffed with ready material for thousands of reputation-building papers. But it is a land where it is easier to discover new mysteries than to find the answers to them. Recently, three U.S. scientists were pulling a fish trap through a hole in the ice when a seal rose through the hole with a big fish in its jaws. The scientists struggled with the seal for the fish, won after a desperate tug of war. The fish, 52 in. long and weighing 58 Ibs., turned out to be an unknown species...