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...South China Sea, Russia against Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk, and Greece against Turkey in the Aegean (though oil is certainly not the issue in Cyprus). Meanwhile, in all the world's major fisheries, fishermen of various nationalities are wrangling acrimoniously over catches of cod, tuna, salmon, herring, whales. Such quarrels in the past have triggered bitter diplomatic disputes, as in last year's "cod war" between Britain and Iceland and in the earlier "tuna wars" between the U.S. and Peru...
Finally--not exactly a wrench in the works but certainly a red herring--The New York Times reported in late March that Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor and chairman of the Faculty library committee, was being considered for appointment as the Librarian of Congress...
...sure, when the power went out, and with it refrigeration and heat, Q.E. 2 cuisine-never one of her fortes-gave way to a diet consisting largely of tinned ham, smoked tongue, herring, haddock and other delicacies that might have accompanied Scott to the Antarctic. Without air-conditioning in warm waters near the Gulf Stream, cabins were as hot as the food was cold and, because the electric pumps and purifying systems were not working, there was no drinking or bathing water. But in the great rooms of the liner, it was like a mod version of Wellington...
...Washington. "People want to believe the worst about their leaders," said Derwinski. "They're looking for evil. They have chips on their shoulders." Indeed, the first question that Derwinski got at a Kiwanis meeting in Hillside was: "Is the energy crisis for real, or is it a red herring to cover up Watergate...
Jerry Cutler was born into a family of rabbis. While training as an Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn, though, he used to slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer...