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...Idaho's panhandle, 50 miles south of the Canadian border, lies Lake Pend Oreille (rhymes with yonder bay), shaped like a question mark. Three mountain ranges cradle the lake, 2,500 feet deep in places and a shade of blue to match. Everyone agreed that it was pleasant to look at, but no one got very much excited about the fishing there until two years ago. Then a local meat-market owner got the strike of his life: his reel screamed and he thought his line would snap. From Pend Oreille's cool water, after a few minutes...
...weeks later, another fisherman hauled in a 32½-pounder, then a world's record for Kamloops (now it's a 36-pounder). Then the rush began. Anglers converged on Pend Oreille, equipped with deep-sea tackle and high hopes. When the Kamloops bit, they bit hard. One man, rowing along the shore one morning with his rod draped over the stern, suddenly saw the rod fly up as if alive. He dropped his oars and dived for it, splitting his chin open on the boat's gunwale. The fish got away, taking rod & reel with...
Liberal Union proposals for a Student Council minority Problems Committee, to work in cooperation with the Intercollegiate Race Relations Board set up at Swarthmore College Saturday, now pend Council action...
Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry. Many a weed contains latex: for example, swamp milkweed yields 45 Ib. per acre, goldenrod 75 Ib. But 4,000 Ib. per acre is ten times as much as the average output of Malaya's richest rubber plantations...
Actually he was on his way, at the moment, to the Navy's new training station at Idaho's beautiful Lake Pend d'Oreille. There, in the midst of pine forests where bear and deer roam wild, he examined the bright new barracks and the tent city of 20,000 construction workers...