Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atomic Holocaust? Gilbert went on to become a tycoon. He bought a 600-acre estate outside New Haven, called it Paradise, and stocked it with fish, game and trophies from hunting expeditions. He insisted on punching the time clock each day as he reported for work with his 2,000 employees (he also punched a bag daily), often showed up in old, patched clothes. He kept up his interest in sports as a pole vaulting coach at Yale for many years (he authored the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on pole vaulting) and, ever the perfectionist, gave up golf after...
Marching north to do battle with the Communists, Royal Laotian soldiers tossed hand grenades in the Nam Song River and jumped in afterward to scoop up the stunned banana fish that floated to the surface. They swam, roasted pigs and fish over open fires, and drank plenty of Mekong rice whisky, paid for by their commanding officer and flown in every day by Sikorsky helicopters manned by U.S. civilian pilots...
...daily, but until recently have had to make do with less than half that volume. To fill its supply pipelines, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization is canvassing U.N. member nations for 10,000 tons of corn, 10,000 tons of rice, 3,000 tons of dried fish, 1,250 tons of dried milk...
...egghead, balanced Businessman Senator Smith will catch more than fish for the Commonwealth of the Sacred Cod during Roomie Jack's tenure...
...shadow of two traditional sculptors, the third Calder was a bit bored with the idea of becoming one himself. He started out to be an engineer. In the 1920s he began making statues (Josephine Baker, Helen Wills) in wire, produced a series of wire goldfish bowls in which the fish swam rhythmically back and forth at the turn of a crank. Out of his contact with Mondrian, he wanted to do "a Mondrian that moves." Thus the mobile...