Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WESTERNERS laugh at the benighted superstitions of their Asian and African brothers. How amusing it is to learn that Burmans refuse to wash their hair on Saturdays, that Zambians believe eggs cause sterility, that Chinese voyagers never turn over the fish on their plates for fear of capsizing their ships. In fact, Westerners themselves seem to becoming the most superstitious people the on earth. For all his faith in scientific reason, Western man is so baffled by complex social and economic problems that he is increasingly attracted to irrational solutions-to all kinds of new black magic...
...sportfisherman in the Midwest was driving, flying or hitchhiking to Lake Michigan. Boats were passing under the Manistee River bridge at the rate of 13 a min ute. Anything that would float was in the water, from rowboats, canoes and sailboats on up to a 50-ft. deep-sea fish ing boat, Mitchell, up from the Ba hamas. Said Fisherman Bob Hurtel: "If there was one boat out there, there were 5,000. You could almost walk across the water on them...
...reason for the frenzy was the presence in the lake of a game fish whose natural home is in the coastal waters and streams of the Pacific. Coho salmon were being caught in fresh-water Lake Michigan by the thousands. And every strike was a battle. The silvery coho salmon are 2 ft. long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying...
Plague of Alewives. For Middle Westerners who have watched game fish in the Great Lakes virtually disappear, the arrival of the cohos is the best news imaginable. Gone is the plentiful supply of lake trout, burbot, walleyes and pike that once made the lakes a fisherman's paradise. The fierce sea lamprey which invaded the lakes from the Atlantic by way of the Welland Canal, gradually wiped out the game fish. The lampreys were eventually controlled by chemicals, but in their wake came a 6-in. saltwater trash fish, the alewife (TIME, July 7, 1967), which monopolized the lakes...
...Dime. Today José and his wife Hilda live in a $60,000 home an hour's drive down the coast from Los Angeles. There they are surrounded by 400 birds, tanks of tropical fish, six dogs and a small chinchilla farm. The new mode of Jose's life is a little bewildering to members of his family, some of whom even think wistfully of the old days in Manhattan. "In a way it was nice to be poor," says his 18-year-old brother, George. "We could get so much fun out of a little dime...