Word: fishing
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...Florida with 16 others. A second refugee, Day Laborer Gabino Mendiola, 39, confirmed the story: "If you do not join the militia, you cannot get a job." Added Jose Aurelio Lechuga Villanueva, 53, a fisherman for 36 years: "A fisherman cannot live. I used to be able to sell fish freely. Now everything goes to the Agrarian Reform at their price. You have nothing left with which to eat." One haggard mother recently landed at Key West in a small sailboat with her two children, a son, 11, a daughter, 7. Said she: "Their father wanted to send them...
...machine's first tests was to distinguish sonar signals bounced off a submarine from those bounced off a porpoise, the ocean floor, or schools of fish. Even an ordinary computer could solve the same problem, but only after a tedious programing telling it exactly how. The Cybertron was merely fed a variety of sounds -several thousand-and after some diligent work by Witt on the goof button, it soon learned to discriminate infallibly. The Cybertron responds by flashing lights on its console, can give not only "yes" (the submarine) and "no" (the porpoise) answers but a broad variety...
...elaborated in a novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley] by Patricia Highsmith, is now dramatized by Director Rene (Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks and starts...
...stinking fish...
Last week eleven chiefs of Mormon missions in Western Europe met in Frankfurt, Germany, to review the past and plan the future. Under their direction, some 3,500 missionaries fish for souls, and the number of souls is growing fast...