Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, Plaquemines has had a new minority to deal with. An old wooden shrimp boat, billowing black smoke, pulls into an isolated bayou near the mouth of the river. Laughingly pushing his cousin aside, Phuoc Nguyen, 11, grabs the tie line and loops two half hitches around a stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many...
...Slay, 30, and Fay Dunson, 27, have been married only 18 months and, without going on an austerity budget, they have already saved $11,000 toward a down payment on a house. Both work for Xerox near Los Angeles, and they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative...
Ending the crisis of vocation. The shortage of priests and nuns in the West is near the peril point in nation after nation, though there are signs that the exodus and the precipitous drop in new seminarians may both be bottoming out. In West Germany's church, engorged though it is with $1.9 billion a year from public taxes, the Limburg diocese expects to have more lay missioners than priests running parishes by 1985. The major reason for the crunch is the rule of celibacy. The next Pope may be forced to re-examine that rule?and the role...
...fisherman by avocation, one of the best in the Miami area. If anyone could find the big broadbill, it was Peacock. Two other fishing boats tagged along in convoy as we tore out of the Cape Florida Channel at 30 m.p.h. The CB radio crackled with reports of battles near by: a 300-pounder landed off Fort Lauderdale ... a three-hour fight in progress with a gargantuan swordfish off Key Largo...
...night closed in, we set out our lines, staggered at depths ranging from 50 ft. to 250 ft. On the leaders near the squid used for bait we attached Cyalumes, plastic cylinders containing a glowing green chemical. The deep-dwelling swordfish has evolved eyes as big as silver dollars, and the Cyalume lights up the squid to attract the foraging broadbill...