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...that the black marlin is the biggest game fish around; some sharks grow bigger. The black is just the fastest, strongest, smartest and meanest-and big enough too. The record for rod and reel is 1,560 Ibs., and even the babies-meaning 200 Ibs. or so-have bills like baseball bats. Golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: All Out for Banzai! | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...psychiatrist wants to try for the jackpot. "I'm honored that you'd risk your life for me," she purrs. She has no sooner declined his proposal than the cleaning man arrives and-hey, guess who? Dean Martin, down on his luck and full of last-reel surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: MacLaine Goes for Broke | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...tougher than he looks. In one scene he puts his fist through a paving stone (well, anyway, it looks like a paving stone) almost a foot thick. In another, he connects with an uppercut and rockets his opponent 30 ft. into the air. In the last reel that nasty old Kobrak turns himself into Goliath's double, and at the climax Gordon beats Gordon to a bloody pulp, rips off his smiling mask, displays the inside of his head. It looks like the inside of a pumpkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Werewolves | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...cogent story line (better, in fact, than the original), and at least three spectacular scenes, each capable of drawing spontaneous applause from any audience. The sex has also been moved up a grade--you won't want to miss the Turkish mode of female competition in the second reel...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: From Russia With Love | 5/14/1964 | See Source »

...down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over 100 Ibs., can snap a line almost at will or make a reel smoke with his furious runs. Experienced fishermen count themselves lucky to boat one out of every ten tarpon they hook into. In three short days at Colorado, contestants boated 102 fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting & Fishing: Budget Safari | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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