Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain Hook Peter...
...spite of assets of $741 million, its total common-stock value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller company could manage. Moreover, in an age of computers, Western Union's extensive cable and microwave circuits are a logical way to hook computers together. Not surprisingly, Western Union has been the target of two determined takeover attempts, one of which last week verged on success...
Union President Beirne, who had been predicting an "overwhelming win," seemed to be moving closer to a settlement at week's end. And he needed one to get himself off the hook...
...trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young. "A 450-pounder, at least...
...light-tackle aficionado may hook ten fish for every one he catches. But the one is worth it. Last August, off Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Veteran Angler Lee Wulff, 63, set a world record by landing a 597-lb. bluefin tuna on 50-lb.-test line. Wulff played that bulldog of the deep for 13½ hr. before finally coaxing it to gaff. "Now I know," he sighed afterward, "what a guy feels like when he has climbed a mountain for the first time...