Word: plankton
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...after a weary week of listening, they are ready to believe that every third person in the U.S. is a would-be tunesmith. But since the only way to be sure of not missing a hit is to listen to everything, most companies assign experts to plow through the plankton-like mass of material. The Tin Pan Alley title for the top picker in each record company is "A & R man" (for Artists and Repertory). The A & R man's job is to be music-hungry seven days a week, while maintaining a gourmet's selectivity...
...water (not more than a quart a day) plus fluids pressed from raw fish can supply the body's need for water without harm to the system. He also concluded that fish contain all the nutrients necessary to health except vitamin C, which can be obtained from plankton. Bombard saw no reason why a man equipped with fishing tackle and fine-mesh nets for gathering plankton could not obtain from the sea enough food and water to stay alive-and even healthy -for weeks at a time. Determined to prove his theory, he set out from Tangier one morning...
...Frenchman named Alain Louis Bombard, 28, he told open-mouthed passengers and crewmen. He had set out on the raft from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in mid-October. Since then, he had lived solely on food and drink gathered at sea: fish, sea birds, barnacles, plankton (minute animal and vegetable life floating at the surface), sea water, rain and dew. He had endured his epic voyage, he said, to prove his theory that victims of shipwreck can survive at sea indefinitely if they have the necessary knowledge and equipment, and do not fall into panic or despair...
...blood pressure and corpuscle counts. Fish were plentiful, especially flying fish, which obligingly got caught in the sail and flopped on to the deck during the night. Bombard tried to pass the time by listening to the radio, gazing at photographs of his wife and chil dren, studying plankton under a microscope, taking notes on marine life, composing music (two concertos and half a symphony, he later reported). After the radio battery petered out in mid-Atlantic, loneliness gripped him hard...
...turned east over Boston Harbor and headed straight for home and eggs. Ahead, by the shortest route, lay nearly 3,300 miles of the North Atlantic. Puffinus, if he followed the custom of his species, rested occasionally on the water or stopped in a likely spot to refuel with plankton, small water creatures found just below the ocean's surface. But Puffinus wasted no time. He finished the homing trip in 12 3/4 days, averaging about 250 miles...