Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AGNES C. RYAN Spring Lake Heights...
Fishing: a line with a worm on one end and a fool on the other. That definition seems as good as any. The bait may vary, but at the other end of the line, nothing is altered. At about this time each year, eager anglers pour down to lake shores and riverbanks in search of fresh-water fish. And each year, despite millions of dollars spent on equipment, despite the cleverest lures in history, the fisher folk are doomed to interminable hours of unsuccessful casts, tangled lines, spurned bait and impaled thumbs...
...very contemporary reso nance. For too long, fishermen have been journeying down to their favorite spots, only to find them defiled. Lake Erie crawls with sludge worms and vegetation that has choked the life out of all game fish. Ohio's Caya-hoga River is so oily that it occasionally catches fire; New Jersey's lower Hackensack River is a stream of odiferous waste...
Died. Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Doyle, 87, good-natured second baseman for the old New York Giants between 1907 and 1920; in Saranac Lake. N.Y. Doyle, a popular player whose fans called him "Laughing Larry," won the National League MVP award in 1912 and clinched the batting crown three years later with a .320 average...
...trouble with many good Ivy athletic teams is that they are like the proverbial big fish in a small pond. Once they are taken out of their comfortable ivied environs, they usually become small fish in a very big lake...