Word: marlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assets of several hundred failed banks, often picking up unusual properties in the process. One of the most unusual came into the agency's possession when it took over $106,000 in mortgages on a small and sleazy hotel in Houston after the First National Bank of Marlin, Texas, failed in March. What the FDIC has on its hands, it seems, is a brothel...
...former Indiana Congressman who was Lyndon Johnson's first executive appointment. "Banking is a flesh-and-blood business," says curly-haired Joe Barr, "and there's no sense pretending it's not." Whatever part the flesh may have played in the failure of the $3.8 million Marlin bank, Barr is trying to get back some of the blood; the FDIC has filed a $1.2 million civil suit charging that major stockholders of the bank misappropriated funds...
...game fishermen naturally think big, and they tend to sneer at anything under 20 Ibs. But there is one little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed...
...Democratic idol of the day, William Jennings Bryan, and was so smitten that he copied the great man's bow-tie-and-frock-coat dress, his stentorian manner of speech and his shaggy haircut. Connally got his law degree at the University of Texas, practiced in Marlin, Texas, and served two terms in the state legislature. In 1916 he won the congressional seat from Texas' 11th district...
...passing yachtsmen put into the placid bay, with its long, empty scythe of golden beach and tile-roofed houses climbing the slopes behind. The fishing was great-leaping sailfish and 400-lb. black marlin. The daytime temperature was in the 70s; in the evening, cooling breezes blew down from the mountains, and the mariachi music lasted far into the night. In the early 1950s a dozen or so Americans went to live in Vallarta. Friends came to visit-and hurried back on their own. Before long, Mexicana Airlines started flying in DC-3s, then DC-6s daily from Mexico City...