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...oeuvre or can make wonderful livestock food. By last year, fish meal was Peru's biggest single industry, bringing in $116 million in export earnings (TIME, May 8). Last week the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization announced that because of the anchovy, Peru is now kingfish of the entire world's fishing business. Of the record 46.4 million tons of fish caught around the world last year, Peruvian fishermen hauled in 6,901,300 tons. Japan, the world's top fishing country each year since 1948, slipped back to second place with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: The Great Big Little Fish | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...year-old lawyer, he had held no posts weightier than president of the L.S.U. student government, and executive counsel to Louisiana's Governor-who happened to be his Uncle Earl. Russell's biggest political asset was a remarkable physical resemblance to his father, Huey. the Kingfish himself. He was dubbed the Princefish. That was all right with Russell; at 13, he had said of his father: "When I grow up. I want to be exactly like him." But somewhere along the way. Russell Long changed his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Long of Louisiana | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...Russell finds himself with 14 years of seniority, a hard-won reputation for effectiveness, and the prospect of being one of the Senate's most powerful members. He has kept his coat on and his English pure, but in at least one respect he remains the Kingfish's son. "He is the most unpredictable man I ever saw." says one Senate colleague. ''Nobody who knows anything about this place can ever think he knows what Russell is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Long of Louisiana | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish to climb the higher reaches. Their falling out was bitter; to Earl, Huey was "the yellowest coward that God ever let live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Brother | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...factories to higher teachers' pay. His opponents, avowed segregationists all, blamed "Faubusism" for the greatest flight of people from any state in the past decade, but Faubus expertly used the formula of paternalism and social welfare that long spelled success for Louisiana's late Huey ("Kingfish") Long. His victory, said the Arkansas Gazette dolefully, meant "the emergence of one political figure to dominate the state's politics as it has never been dominated before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Kingfish Faubus | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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