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...deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack. The violently thrashing marlin had finally managed to chafe through the thin monofilament and escape. Clarke and Young headed for home...
...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...
Intermission. By this time, almost 1 hr. and 40 min. have passed, and the non-sci-fi fanatic may feel as benumbed as the scientists in their "hibernacu-lums." In depicting interplanetary flight 33 years from now, Director Stanley Kubrick and his co-scenarist, Arthur C. Clarke, England's widely respected science and science-fiction writer, dwell endlessly on the qualities of space travel; unfortunately they ignore such old-fashioned elements as character and conflict. As the ship arcs through the planetary void it is an object of remarkable beauty-but in an effort to convey the idea...
...when Italy's 27-year-old Franco Nones became the first person other than a Scandinavian or Russian ever to win an Olympic cross-country ski race. A wiry customs agent from Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special green wax designed particularly for the kind of crusty, frozen...
...canvas seaplanes, and headed out from Rockaway, L.I., bound for Plymouth, England. Two of the planes were hammered down by squalls off the Azores, but Read somehow kept his NC4 aloft and eventually set down in Plymouth-after 23 days, seven stops, 3,936 miles. Actual flying time: 52 hr. 3 min. for an average of 75.6 m.p.h...