Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shanghai last week the rice ration again was slashed-from an average 22 Ibs. per month to 17.6 Ibs. Vegetables were rare, and fish was hard to find; no meat has been distributed since the Chinese New Year last February. It has been a harsh, cruel year, and another like it seems in prospect. Best estimates are that grain production this year will reach no more than 180 million tons, 40 million tons short of the target, and actually less than the harvest in 1957 when there were 60 to 70 million fewer mouths to feed...
Meat is only the latest of scarcities under Castro. One by one, the abundant supplies of fish, pork, vegetables, rice, wheat, eggs, such consumer staples as razor blades, toilet paper and soap have disappeared from the shelves. Last month, to fight black-marketing, the government ordered that 15 articles-among them toothpaste, thread, and nursing nipples-would be sold henceforth only in government-designated stores. But what Castro cannot do by fiat is to end his own mismanagement, which has crippled Cuba's economy, or to overcome the stiff U.S. trade embargo, which makes matters very much worse...
...signed a petition urging their final removal. By this summer, almost all the prisoners were gone, and, in response to a great, government-sponsored publicity campaign, masses of tourists arrived (15,000 so far this year). Ustica has few entertainments to offer them-not even movies-but it has fish-rich waters, deep blue grottoes to plumb, and long stretches of land to walk. Thoroughly pleased with the setting, the week-long International Underwater Convention stayed submerged long enough to let 24 spearsmen from seven countries compete for the underwater fishing prize, surfaced to present its annual "Golden Trident" awards...
...richest, and the meanest, landowners in the town of San Lio. He passes on the family faith: the land is god; to lose it, or anything on it, is hell. Ippolita's mother tongue lashes the easygoing parish priest for not refusing Holy Communion to game poachers and fish stealers. When Ippolita becomes mistress of the San Lio domains, she visits the orphaned poor, "not of course to bestow money on them-for the poor use money unwisely-but to hand out bits of dried bread and cheese...
Died. Harry Balogh, 70, boxing's "Marquis of Malaprop," whose bullhorn ring announcements rattled U.S. stadiums for some 35 purple years; following surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime bellhop from the Lower East Side, Balogh brought "class" to his profession by introducing the soup-and-fish and the comparative adjective (his variation on the ungrammatical "best-man-win" theme: "May the better participant emerge triumphant"), in 1935 capped a lifelong battle against race hate by imploring an inflamed crowd at the Primo Carnera-Joe Louis bout: "Leave us all view this contest without anchor or prejudism...