Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Market. Evenings, most tourists ride the funicular railway up the 1,800-foot Peak, which was once the exclusive citadel of British taipans and has a view of sea, sky and islands that puts the Bay of Naples to shame. They go to the floating restaurants at the fishing village of Aberdeen, where patrons select the live fish that will be served them at dinner. Between bouts of shopping, visitors wander amid the outlandish statuary of the Tiger Balm Garden or prowl the stairway streets above Queen's Road and look into the thieves' market of Cat Street...
...Unsophisticated. A retiring man, Miller complained a bit about "living in a fish bowl," but beyond that the Millers managed to keep their marriage to themselves, out of the public eye and prints, except for three ill-fated pregnancies, all of which ended in miscarriage...
Such additions were made necessary by the valley's tremendous growth. TVA has reforested the river's valley, created a chain of fish-stocked lakes and a recreation industry, used its coal and water supplies to become the biggest U.S. electric-generating company, wholesaling its power to 153 local electric systems, several federal agencies, and private companies that have been attracted to the valley-all at rates well below most of the U.S. TVA serves such big, power-hungry customers as Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, National Carbide and Hooker Chemical. Since TVA began, a seven-state area that...
...spent 22 years on Capitol Hill, twelve of them in the Senate. Starting off as a small-town schoolteacher and ardent fisherman, Mundt tried his hand as a college speech instructor, farmer and insurance agent, broke into politics as a member of South Dakota's Game and Fish Commission. A prewar isolationist turned internationalist, he bears right domestically-except on farm policy, where he favors liberal supports...
...college students believe that whisky will "kill" a fever, and one-third think that an expectant mother can cultivate musical talent in her unborn child by listening to symphonies. One student in three believes that chiropractors are just as competent as physicians, and a smaller group thinks that fish is a "brain food." So says New York University's Dr. H. Frederick Kilander, author of the standard Kilander Health Knowledge Tests, who has been charting the progress of general health education in the U.S. since...