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When fellow members of the La Paz Hunting & Fishing Club heard of Moores's catch, they remembered that Titicaca had been seeded with rainbow back in 1935, and that various tributary streams had been stocked off & on since then by the government. So far only 50 anglers have tried their luck in the lake since Moores's discovery. But they have been pulling out whoppers right & left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...rank amateur, Donald V. Applegate of Cochabamba, caught a 17-pounder; the current record is held by Ricardo Roberts, manager of the newspaper La Razón, who boated a 32-pound rainbow.* Packing up to transfer to a new post in the Pentagon last week, Moores vowed: "I'll be back next year. If there's not a 40-pounder there now, there'll sure be by then, and that's the boy I'm after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...World's rainbow record: a 37-pounder caught at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...pour through into the earth's atmosphere. Oxygen atoms near the earth's surface begin to glow and sparkle when struck by the speeding hydrogen. All through the "magnetic funnel" the luminous oxygen shimmers and shines in crimson and yellow and green streamers, which are the waving rainbow of the northern lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Northern Lights | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Utah, Republicans met in the Rainbow Randevu, on Salt Lake City's South Main Street, argued so long over state convention procedure that votes were still being counted when the big Saturday-night dance started. While the band played Be My Life's Companion, the result was announced: 14 delegates down the line for Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ruckuses & Rump Sessions | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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