Word: marlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat, headed for the Jack Spot, a ten-square-mile expanse of shoal water with one simple claim to fame: there, each summer, congregates the densest concentration of white marlin in the world...
Fish Out of Water. Compared with its giant kin, the Atlantic blue marlin and the black marlin, the white seems almost pygmyish. The biggest white mar lin ever boated weighed 161 lbs., as against rod-and-reel records of 810 lbs. for the blue and 1,560 lbs. for the black. But for fishermen who cannot afford to chase the blues to the Bahamas or the blacks to Panama, the silvery, long-billed white marlin is a mettlesome substitute. Pound for pound, it is one of the sea's most exciting and annoying game fish. Wily and wary...
...hard to get a white marlin on the hook, it is even harder to keep it there. An angry white marlin can swim at 60 m.p.h. In its strong, tenacious struggle to throw the hook, it often thrusts out of the water 20 times or more in "tailwalking" jumps and long "greyhounding" leaps, sometimes lunges at the stern of a boat with enough force to impale a careless fisherman on its bill...
Framed along with the medical diploma and the other parchments of pro fessional achievement on the wall of Dr. Alan R. Grain's Washington, D.C., office hangs a reminder of a recent six-week vacation. It is no mounted marlin or spread of ten-point antlers-only another certificate. "Nay chung-nhan," it begins, which is Vietnamese for "This is to certify," and goes on to let it be known with gold seal and red ribbon that Dr. Grain served this spring as a visiting orthopedic surgeon at the crowded, understaffed Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon...
...Marlin, now a student at Trinity College, Oxford, spent the summer in Montreal, Canada, and took no action to advance the suit, although he had indicated previously that he would seek more depositions from HSA officials. Marlin's lawyer, George Waldstein '46, said yesterday that "there still is a case...