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Boston's mammoth, reeking fish pier, which juts 1,200 ft. into South Bay, has long been the hub of New England's fishing industry, once the most prosperous branch of U.S. commercial fishing. In recent years the pier has also become a symbol of the industry's steady decline. Since World War II, Boston's trawler fleet has dropped from 140 to 79, its once huge force of fishermen to 2,000, its share of the vital groundfish market (e.g., flounder, haddock, cod), which was once 90%, to 45%. Yet last week the Boston fish...
...after the worst year in the history of Boston's fishing industry, the Fulhams decided that the antiquated fish pier, and its way of doing business, would have to be modernized if the Boston fishing industry was to survive. They quietly began buying stock in the pier, and, with two-thirds of the-stock in their hands, became landlords to Boston's fishing fleet, and launched a long-term improvement program...
...Financier Leopold Dias Silberstein, 52, has swept up 20 companies into his Penn-Texas Corp., sometimes by stock swaps after a tough proxy fight. Last week, driving for his biggest prize of all, Chicago heavy-equipment maker Fairbanks, Morse & Co. (TIME, March 12), Silberstein ran into a brass-knuckled pier 6 brawl. The opposition came not from Fairbanks, Morse but from within Silberstein's own camp. In a New York Federal Court, dissident stockholders demanded an accounting of Silberstein's management...
True or not, the Russians were getting tough. Soviet tanks fired on all moving objects, and Soviet soldiers were executing Hungarian soldiers and civilian rebels in the streets. Reported a Swiss businessman: "Today, as I left Budapest, I saw people hanging in rows along the Danube pier. I counted 20 executed people hanging from flagpoles and street lights. It was terrible. The Russians have started a horror regime...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...