Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farm Boy. While his doctor, appalled by the leprosy, tuberculosis, syphilis and jaundice rates, watched anxiously, Lyndon back-patted his way through the village crowds. Entering a hovel where fly-covered dried fish and a few tins were on display, he quipped, "Is this the supermarket?" To every family accompanied by children, he announced proudly that he and Lady Bird have a couple of teen-age daughters back home. When the natives expressed their thanks for his visit, L.B.J. allowed, "This is communication like in the garment district in New York or in Johnson City, Texas...
...studied intervals, the Soviet newspapers fish up specimens of private enterprise and exhibit them to the public as prehistoric monsters-and horrible examples. A reporter from Sovietskaya Rossia recently discovered that the island of Sporny was full of farmers who had fled collectivization. Located in the middle of a river and source of a squabble about which province should control it, Sporny had spawned farmers who had fenced off their properties-sin of sins. Farmer Zakhar Vasilenko was so capitalist that he owned four cows, 150 sheep, had an outrageous annual private income of $7,500. Moaned Sovietskaya Rossia...
Sirens screamed. A string of firecrackers sounded off for a full minute, popping on the ice. A dead fish was tossed across the arena. Hats soared...
...Deal. Alfred's fossil hunting began when he was only 13, when he hiked to the abandoned Granton quarry in North Bergen, a mile from his home. Friends showed him the remains of ancient fish in a layer of fine-grained black shale and Alfred became a paleontologist on the spot. He spent most of his spare time in the old quarry. At night he pored over books on his new hobby. Soon he had an impressive fossil collection, mostly of primitive fish, such as coelacanths, which he took to the Museum of Natural History...
...Fish, Little Fish. Despite a good many faults, this story of a minor editor who is the life force for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres is well worth seeing...