Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern Icelander is a chip off the old Norse. He believes that his tiny nation of 172,000 people can exist in equal partnership with great powers-while supporting itself almost entirely on fish. Last week the Icelander proved his premise by winning a curious ocean war against the proudest maritime nation on earth: Great Britain...
Last week, from both London and Reykjavik, came announcements that the 2½-year feud had ended. The terms: Iceland gets its twelve-mile limit, but British fishermen are permitted a three-year period of grace, during which they may fish-at certain times, at certain locations -within six miles of Iceland's coast. If Iceland's fishermen catch the fish that the British have been getting, the pact eventually should mean an additional $28 million a year for its one-crop economy...
...Broadway play's pre-Broadway alterations can sometimes be basic. The latest example is Big Fish, Little Fish, by Hugh Wheeler, which opens on Broadway March 15 and stars Jason Robards Jr. as a middle-aged hollow man who, in the bright past before Act I, used to be a brilliant young professor at a girls' college. But an old accusation hangs over him: he had seduced a trustee's daughter, who, when jilted by him, committed suicide in his bathtub...
...very standard: disillusioned modern man tormented by a particularly hideous trauma. The only switch is that during rehearsal before the Philadelphia opening of Big Fish, Little Fish, the girls' school was a boys' school, the seduced girl was a boy-and the cast's private title for the play, Big Swish, Little Swish. The plot change may start Broadway theatergoers thinking. What do people in New Haven know about Willy Loman that others don't? Was Blanche DuBois named Bernie in Philadelphia...
...almost certainly not be done unless someone gets on the ball very fast. Unless the existence of the present freshman year is to become an argument against any program that has not gathered dust for a few years, Labaree's proposal deserves either a trial or a detailed rebuttal. Fish or cut bait...