Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference, one observer compared the illiterate, hungry people of Latin America to fish caught beneath the ice, and the Punta del Este delegates to skaters above. To the fish, the skaters and their complicated figures mean nothing; the only thing that counts to them is the act of cutting through the ice and sending down food. Dillon put the same message in his own dogged way: "Although we have charted the way to progress, plans alone will not feed the people, cure the sick or educate our children. We must now undertake the hard and steady work of making...
...erosion, the death of billions upon billions of microscopic organisms inexorably added silt to the lake beds at a measurable (though varying) rate of some 18 in. a century. Summer heat warmed the upper layers of water, upsetting the normal turbulence that sends life-giving oxygen to the deepwater fish and other life...
...this cumulative process, Frey predicts, the oxygen content eventually will fall past the point-three parts oxygen to one million parts water-below which deepwater fish cannot survive. Limnologist Frey has discovered evidence of this in an increasing population of the red "blood" midge, a mosquitolike larva that can get along fine on far less oxygen than its more demanding green and brown brothers. In Douglas Lake, Frey's crew also brought up a few "phantom" midges, near-transparent larvae that can reach adult stage without any oxygen at all for long periods at a time...
...made spa. ("The Lloyd line," says one official, "goes in for good clean fun.") American Export Lines are preparing lowbudget, two-week beachcomber cruises to Caribbean ports on the Atlantic, for which the lines will install barbecue pits for outdoor cookouts. There will also be spear fishing in the swimming pools-with rubber fish...
Graves need not cry any such thing; his fish are newly netted, gold and silver, rare...