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The Democrats, at least, were delighted. "We are fishing in the same waters," said Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, who three weeks ago proposed a somewhat more drastic freeze on federal spending. Added Congressman James Jones of Oklahoma, who heads the...
But these and other objects on display represent only 3% of the Smithsonian's holdings. Out of sight, filling every nook and cranny of space, is a decidedly odder assortment of things-100,000 bats (including 6,629 vampires), 2,300 spark plugs, 24,797 woodpeckers, 718,605 pieces...
DIED. Walter ("Red") Smith, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist whose wry wit and pursuit of what he called "the pure crystal stream of the declarative sentence" made him the most influential and admired sportswriter of our time; in Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring...
The roster of 20th century Presidents who have sampled the delights of fly fishing is impressive: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower and, of course, Jimmy Carter. In "Spruce Creek Diary," a 4,000-word article that appears in the current issue of Fly Fisherman, Carter, perhaps the most avid...
When both gave out, they used their fishing nets, and that was when the trouble started. A few men, "taking advantage of the others," fished for themselves at night. The boatmaster fought with them. Four people "fell" overboard. Seven remained.