Word: marlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). For the season's opener, Van Heflin fishes for marlin off Chub Cay in the Bahamas, and Bing Crosby and Phil Harris hunt sand grouse in Tanzania...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Host Marlin Perkins travels to Rhodesia's Wankie Game Preserve to demonstrate how "To Catch a Giraffe...
...fish. Swordfishing, wrote Zane Grey, "takes more time, patience, endurance, study, skill, nerve and strength, not to mention money, of any game known to me." And Kip Farrington. who has probably landed more big fish than any man alive, says: "I would rather take one swordfish than five black marlin, ten blue marlin, or 50 white marlin...
...then the struggle begins, and an unfair battle it is-for the angler. Gladius in a towering rage can strip 1.000 yds. of 80-lb.-test line off an angler's reel in the space of seconds. Unlike his cousin the marlin, he rarely wastes effort on grandstanding jumps. He runs and rolls and thrashes about, often entangling himself in the protective wire leader on the end of the line-and snaps the 500-lb.-test wire like a piece of string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better...
...cutting prices last February, the company got some extra sales push out of its slow-moving Rambler American economy line. It decided to scrap its ill-conceived Marlin fastback effective with the 1968 model-year, meanwhile cut back production on all '67 models to make sure that it would not be stuck with unsold cars. "Since January," says Luneburg, "we've operated at about halftime. I've never seen it before-and I never want to again...