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...into 700-lb. sharks close to Durban's most popular bathing beaches, Electrician Cecil Jacobs, whose catch last year totaled 1,960 Ibs., exults: "It's fighting, fighting, fighting all the way." And in the U.S., where some 1,500,000 sharks were caught on rod and reel last year, "monster fishing" is a fast-growing sport among anglers who are weary of coming home with nothing but a sunburn. "You get a 150-lb. shark on a 20-lb.-test line," says Wayne Snodgrass, an electronics technician from San Rafael, Calif., "and it's like holding...
...pure ferocity; the weird-looking thresher, which batters its prey senseless with an enormous scythelike tail and comes in an economy-size 1,000-lb. package; and the voracious tiger shark, which reportedly tops two tons-though the biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed...
...biggest and most dangerous game fish-usually known simply as "the man-eater." A true monster that grows to 35 ft. and possibly 8,000 Ibs., the white shark has devoured swimmers in such diverse locations as Matawan, N.J., the Gulf of Mexico, and Portsea, Australia. The rod-and-reel record is a 2,664-pounder landed by Australian Fruit Farmer Alf Dean in 1959. That was just a baby. Dean himself hooked into a bigger one that towed his 30-ft. launch 12 miles, finally broke loose after an epic 5½-hr. battle. Last year, off New York...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has always had pretty much his own way on Capitol Hill. This is partly because he has had strong presidential backing, partly because he overwhelms Congressmen with his ability to reel off facts and figures in almost unanswerable argument. Not the least of McNamara's accomplishments was to win the support of Georgia's Democratic Representative Carl Vinson, until his retirement last year the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the sometime gadfly to previous Defense Secretaries...
...date, in hard cover and paperbacks, Bond books have been read by some 30 million, and United Artists estimates that 25 million have seen Bond in reel life. By the time all three current Bond films have been milked dry, the take may top $100 million...