Word: marlin
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Somebody once said that the man who fishes for black marlin probably wears a size 44 coat and a size 4 hat. That is libel, of course. But the idea is that it takes brawn to catch one-and a kind of lunacy...
...that the black marlin is the biggest game fish around; some sharks grow bigger. The black is just the fastest, strongest, smartest and meanest-and big enough too. The record for rod and reel is 1,560 Ibs., and even the babies-meaning 200 Ibs. or so-have bills like baseball bats. Golfer...
Snead, who would rather catch a marlin than lick Ben Hogan, says that going after blacks is "like hunting elephants." Another expert big game fisherman, S. Kip Farrington Jr., calls the black "the glamour boy of all fishes-and the most difficult to catch." Farrington should know: he once held the world record (a 1,135-pounder), and he has also spent 94 consecutive fishing days without boating a single marlin...
...compete with the Big Three's intermediate-class cars, will be available in eight models ranging from a station wagon to a convertible. Abernethy has also given the Classic a face-lift and tooled up for a fastback sports car that will probably be called either the Marlin or Sceptre. The handsome American compact will continue almost unchanged. Abernethy has no intention of abandoning the image of making "sensible cars" that Romney created for the company, but, being a sensible type himself, he wants to have models in the bigger class where affluent Americans are now spending the bulk...
Barr is less disturbed by his odd properties than by the fact that the Marlin bank failure illustrates what may be a trend. Most banks over the years since the Depression have gone under either because officers embezzled funds or showed poor judgment in making loans. But the four banks that have failed in the past 16 months had each been acquired by new management just before failure. Barr fears that unprincipled operators may be taking over small banks, paying themselves inflated salaries to recover acquisition costs, and then selling risky loan paper to their own banks. Barr aims...