Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad-beamed chinook salmon were coming home from the sea. Seattle's Lake Union swarmed with the far-ranging voyagers, and when the advance guard struggled up a fish ladder on the campus of the University of Washington, they got an unusually warm reception. Waiting to greet them was Professor (of Fisheries) Lauren R. Donaldson, their breeder, nurse and public relations man. For these were no ordinary salmon. Conceived on the campus, they were the third generation of college-bred chinooks, selected for vigor, meatiness and quick maturing. Dr. Donaldson hopes to develop them into a race of supersalmon...
...square in shape; encased in that permanent invalid of the American baking industry, the bun, they are, even so, mechanically consumed in sickening quantities every day. They cost anywhere from 15 cents to 40 cents. And every single one of them is accompanied, like a whale with its pilot fish, by a small, awkward slice of cucumber pickle. All very depressing...
...Fish Underfoot? The shunting of millions of workers out of factories to help on the farms has sharply cut production of light industrial goods. Near Tientsin, a cement works normally employing 6,000 workers limped along with only two of its eight kilns operating, in some months shut down completely, and has now been converted to the production of "substitute food"-a ground-up mixture of hay, grass roots and other plants. Elsewhere, factories in need of spare parts or raw materials are standing idle. Families are now rationed to 2½ ft. of cotton cloth a year-"enough...
Weakened Bands. Unlike their easygoing Lao neighbors (and fellow Buddhists), Burma's soldiers are willing and able to fight, despite the Buddhist scruple against killing. Buddhism is full of loopholes for those who chose to find them: who, for instance, is to blame if a fish dies after the fisherman has rescued it from the wetness in the river...
Concerned about his studies, Sonny's parents enrolled him in Manhattan's highly rated McBurney School when he was 13 (at the enrollment interview, he said he was interested in dramatics and tropical fish). He flunked out a year later. A friend who knew Sonny then recalled that "he wanted to do unconventional things. For hours, no one in the family knew where he was or what he was doing; he just showed up for meals. He was a nice boy, but he was the kind of kid who, if you wanted to have a card game, wouldn't join...