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Politicians accustomed to swimming in the relatively predictable shallows of the American voter's mood must now be thinking of it as a kind of Loch Ness. This year something is down there. Something unexamined, a different psychological species. An ancient coelacanth of conservatism? Or some entirely new breed? In this volatile, often surprising primary season, one thing is clear: there has been a fairly fundamental change in the way that Americans look at their leaders and Government...
...Pacific Northwest for Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, a giant, manlike creature who supposedly lives there; climbers and explorers have tried, with a similar lack of success to establish the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. But no creature has been sought so assiduously as "Nessie," the Loch Ness Monster, a mysterious beast first reported in Scotland's Loch Ness in 565 by St. Columba. Now a monster maven from Boston named Robert Rines has finally achieved a degree of success in the hunt for Nessie. Although he has not actually brought the monster to bay, Rines...
...Rines' most consuming interests has been the Loch Ness Monster. In 1972 he set up an array of underwater cameras in the loch and obtained a picture that showed a large mass with what some experts identified as a flipper-like appendage. Last summer Rines' cameras took thousands more shots beneath the murky loch's surface and produced two more photographic equivalents of a Rorschach test...
George Zug, curator of amphibians and reptiles at Washington's Smithsonian Institution, speculated that there might even be a population of several such creatures in Loch Ness, which is 24 miles long, and 700 feet deep over much of its length. But scientists from the British Museum (Natural History) found the pictures too fuzzy for accurate interpretation. Others questioned the controls under which they were made and took Nature to task for printing the article...
...burst of publicity about the Loch Ness Monster has inspired others to track it down. Nature, with a straight face, reported that the British Bacon Curers' Federation would soon organize a new hunt for Nessie by hot-air balloon. The organization's choice of conveyance is appropriate. The opinions of the Nessie experts alone are enough to keep the hunters airborne for weeks...