Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Singer Jimmy Dean hunts Alaska moose; Chicago White Soxers Gary Peters and Hoyt Wilhelm shoot pisingo (tree duck) in Colombia; Curt Gowdy and his sons fish for trout in Wyoming...
...saving the lives of babies, America ranks 15th among the nations of the world." - A wide range of new consumer-protection programs, including some already approved by the Senate but not the House (truth in lending, gas-pipeline safety) and several approved by neither (among them, a wholesome-fish-and-poultry act). He also proposed appointing a consumer counsel in the Justice Department-a sort of ombudsman of the marketplace...
...residential area, sacrificed his own life. In Westerville, Ohio, Kuralt interviewed John Franklin Smith, 87, who upon retiring as a teacher at Otterbein College stayed on as a janitor; the old man remarked that he was still "looking ahead" because there were so many "good books to read and fish to catch and pretty women to see and good men to know...
...longer afford the luxury of ignorance about the ocean bottom. Marine "farming" of fish and plant life may eventually be essential to feed the world's burgeoning population. As deposits of minerals, oil and gas are depleted, the virtually untapped resources lying on and beneath the ocean floor become increasingly attractive to industry. In 2,500,000 sq. mi. of offshore area, the U.S. alone has petroleum reserves estimated at 3.2 trillion...
Died. James L. B. Smith, 70, ichthyologist who first identified the coelacanth, a fish believed extinct for 70 million years; by his own hand (cyanide); in Grahamstown, South Africa. Until 1938, when a coelacanth was caught off the South African coast, scientists had seen it only in fossil form, a five-foot-long creature whose weird, leglike fins marked it a close relative of the amphibians that first linked sea and land animals. In the years since, a dozen coelacanths have been found, though Smith never realized his dream of studying one alive. His suicide did not surprise his wife...