Word: perche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Excellent Perch. The Nixon Administration maintains that, initially at least, Diego Garcia will serve merely as a fueling station for American ships and a landing strip for reconnaissance aircraft. Inevitably, there has also been speculation that the base might be used for nuclear submarines and strike aircraft, including the new B-l supersonic bomber-a fact that may have prompted Izvestia 's castigation of the U.S. project last week as "totally unjustified" and dangerous to detente...
...excellent perch from which to observe ship traffic from the western Pacific to the oil-rich Persian Gulf and thence to the Mediterranean...
...they did in Walton's day, a fisherman's luck will remain random and capricious. For most anglers, that will be all right. In the end, they do not gear up for the sole purpose of bringing back a haul of wall eyed pike or edible perch. They also go out in the spirit of that great adventure novelist John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), who once peered beneath the surface of the water and caught the essence of the sport: "The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable...
...winner was Paul Jacobson, 23, a Chicago news photographer, who at first passed his time taking pictures from his perch, keeping a diary and watching TV. After three months and several news stories about his isolated existence, he found another diversion...
...down. The couple refused. Then he offered to have a wedding ceremony performed atop the flagpole, and even threw in a promise of a free honeymoon if the girl would come down after the ceremony. Jacobson would have none of it. After 156 days aloft, he gave up his perch and potential profits last week for the woman he loves. Neumann, already hunting for another sitter, was philosophical about Jacobson's departure: "Apparently he thinks a girl is more important than sitting on a flagpole...