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...leaping, head-shaking fish ripped off 400 yds. of 130-lb. test line; it took another 1 hr. 20 min. to get the giant blue into the boat. It measured an even 14 ft. from bill to scythelike tail, and weighed 810 Ibs.-a new world record, 30 Ibs. heavier than the previous record caught three years ago off San Juan...
Grumman's Denison, which is 32 tons heavier than the PT 50 and designed to go twice as fast, is expected to be the forerunner of 80-knot hydrofoils capable of coping with open ocean. This August Boeing will launch a hydrofoil subchaser for the U.S. Navy...
...enthusiasm may have been the same, but it was not the same old Billy, for the years of crusading have taken their toll. At 185 Ibs., he is 25 Ibs. heavier than when he first began his preaching tours, and 5 Ibs. over what he says is his best preaching weight. He has cut out desserts, limited his butter intake, exercises twice a day in his hotel room with dumbbells. "I don't seem to have the reserve strength that I used to have," he says. Weary of constant traveling, he would like to spend more time with...
...that a significantly higher proportion of boys to whom the father was unacceptable as a pattern of emulation existed among delinquents than among non-delinquents. In the new work it was discovered that the impact of this emotional deprivation, on which much of the building of character depends, is heavier among boys who are characterized by the traits of stub- Stubborness, uninhibited meter responses the stimuli, and acquisitiveness...
...make broad judgments where Debré worried over details. Pompidou has been described as having "the same view of France and the same view of De Gaulle's destiny as De Gaulle himself." His appointment is widely interpreted as evidence that De Gaulle intends to lay an even heavier hand on the reins of government...