Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Until the outsize Polaris came along the Navy had traditionally classified subs as boats. Polaris subs are the first to escape the traditional fish names, are named for U.S. heroes on the suggestion of an ex-Army general named Eisenhower...
...except to exchange dollars or back horses." While guns boomed within earshot up the peninsula, life went on in Singapore much as before, with bars, brothels and theaters thriving. In typical shrewd Singapore fashion, people turned the war to their own advantage; fishermen rowed out before dawn to gather fish that had been stunned by high explosives...
...last year Sutton has toted his tools more than 100,000 miles, most recently to Tahiti, where he dined on raw fish in coconut milk, papaya-banana pudding-and, of course, paregoric. His wife Pat, 24, a former night-club dancer, usually goes along, once traveled abroad six times in six months. Sutton is handsomely rewarded for his peregrinations: from his column, Of All Places, which is syndicated in 35 papers, and from his periodic travelogues for the Saturday Review, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications, he earns some $40,000 a year...
...miscues are leg endary. Reading from notes during one of her stadium intermission talks, she an nounced that the coming attraction would be "Ezio Pinza Bass," and then added over the roars of laughter: "Oh no, that can't be right; that's the name of a fish." She has been known to refer to H.M.S. Pina fore as "everybody's favorite by Gilbert and Solomon," or to announce that "Rodger Hammerstein personally will conduct a number from South Pacific." To anybody familiar with her ways, it is per fectly obvious that when she announces a performance...
...stretch in the Sierra. His towering pack makes him self-sufficient. Not only does it contain such essentials as dehydrated food and a three-quarter ax, but also shoe nails and a cobbler's hammer, material to patch his pants, cameras, prepared breading mix for frying fish, and, to while away the twilight hours, copies of such classics as Cervantes in Spanish and Moliere in French. Says a Sierra guide: "We call him the pack that walks like...