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SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). "Black Marlin of Peru," "Arctic Fishing" and "Game Birds of Ireland" are on the agenda...
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...Being a member of the Ocean City, Md., marlin fleet, I was very glad to see your story on commercial long lining [Jan. 28]. However, your article states that a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boat propellers. These lines were in fact pulled up and cut with knives-and anything else handy-aboard considerably more than two boats. In the light of what long lining will do to sport fishing, I would consider it unwise for anyone to set one within the operating range of our fleet. MITCH MIORANA Ocean...
Wirges' conviction was only the latest incident in a long history of troubles that eventually cost him his paper. While he was in command, the Democrat attacked the well-entrenched local political machine of Sheriff Marlin Hawkins, a close ally of Governor Orval Faubus. After accusing the machine of election fraud, Wirges was threatened, beaten up and shot at. Harassed by every possible legal weapon his enemies could dream up, Wirges lost two libel suits for a total of $275,000. A $75,000 judgment was later overturned by the Arkansas Supreme Court; the $200,000 verdict has been...
Wrap-Around Masts. For those who were lucky enough to have booked early, there is deer and jaguar hunting in the jungles nearby, marlin off the coast, and for jaded water-skiers the sport called "water-parachuting," in which a skier, hanging onto a rope behind a speedboat, is lifted into the air a hundred feet or so by a special parachute, then is cut loose to settle gently into the water again. And for all, from morning till night, there is the sun. When it sets, there are the parties, two and often three a night. They begin late...