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...pressure is growing at Maryland's "Jack Spot," the summer home of the tough little (world's record: 161 lbs.) white marlin. Until commercials showed up in the Jack Spot last summer, it was rare for a charter-boat captain to return emptyhanded. Last September, after a fruitless day trolling at the Jack Spot, Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes and Delaware's Governor Charles L. Terry Jr. issued a joint statement demanding protection of U.S. game fish from foreign meat fishermen...
...Erhard and his policies whenever the chance arises. A good opportunity was not far off: last week Charles de Gaulle invited Adenauer over for a visit in late January-just before the French leader is due to get together with Erhard for another of those regular and so far fruitless meetings provided for by the Franco-German "friendship" treaty...
...Defense Department, they tracked the payload of a Minuteman missile, took infra-red measurements of the plasma sheath of ionized air that was created when it plunged back into the atmosphere below them. Another experiment, communication with earth through a laser beam, was only partially successful. After several fruitless attempts, the astronauts spotted the blue-green beam from a laser-transmitting station in Hawaii, aimed their own beam toward it, but were unable to keep it in sight long enough for voice communications...
...responsibility. For the past ten years the U.S. ambassador there has met for no less than 127 conferences with his Red Chinese counterpart. Gronouski's predecessor, John Cabot (who moved on as deputy commandant of the National War College in Washington), met 20 times with the Chinese, delivering fruitless warnings to Peking to stay out of India and Viet Nam. Now it is the former Postmaster General's Sisyphean job to deliver the messages...
...futility of protest," but by the belief that our inaction might seriously harm a Program to which we felt a moral obligation: not by "(anticipation of) the harassment (protest) might entail," but by the reasoned judgment that renouncing our awards and insulting the President was an inappropriate, fruitless, and irresponsible way to express our political views. Amory B. Lovins...