Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iron Curtain country, and the Hungarians did their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot down over the Democratic Republic...
...Hosting, the Second Annual Governors Invitational Marlin Tournament at Ocean City, Maryland's pixyish Governor J. Millard Tawes, 72, arrived with a "secret weapon"-a lure made from a rabbit's foot with a hook in it. Presto! Barely five minutes after Tawes got out to the fishing grounds, a 7-ft. 4-in. marlin hurled itself at his line. "My goodness!" exclaimed Tawes, and pumped in the prize. No one else got even a sniff from a fish until just before the 3 p.m. quitting time. And then Delaware's Governor Charles L. Terry hauled...
...Scapegoat. No investigation is needed to establish the major point: for the first time since the inflationary Korean War period, food prices are climbing faster than overall retail prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food has gone up by 3½% in the past year; meat, fish and poultry 7½%, dairy products 5½%. Local situations dramatize the difficulty. In Chicago last week the retail price of butter was 93? per lb., up 12½? from last year. In Detroit, lettuce has gone from 20? a head to 29?, cabbage from 10? to 15? a head, carrots...
...fish don't often pass," explained Britain's Viscount Bearsted, "and you grab them when you can." Last week Lord Bearsted hooked a notably big one-to become his own successor as chairman of Hill, Samuel & Co., Ltd., the largest of London's merchant banks in terms of capital, securities underwriting and profits. His prize catch was Baron Sherfield, 62, the former Sir Roger Makins, ex-barrister, able economist, gentleman-farmer, career diplomat and onetime (1953-56) Ambassador...
...women walking about the streets, looking like Eunuchs -waddling like pregnant dachshunds, or as scrawny as ostriches, with swollen bodies, varicose veins, wadded breasts or tight stays hidden under their clothes." The magistrates were greatly offended by Sinyavsky's suggestion that the government might transform human fetuses into fish to provide food for the people. The judges, lacking a sense of humor or satire, could not see the parallel to Swift...