Word: reels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just another fish story. Not to Robert Clarke, 58, a civil engineer for whom a pleasant afternoon of trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young. "A 450-pounder, at least...
...slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack. The violently thrashing marlin had finally managed to chafe through the thin monofilament and escape. Clarke and Young headed for home...
...Warner Oland, a Swede, who appeared in 16 features, and Sidney Toler, a Missourian, who lumbered woodenly through 22 pictures portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue up the clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes...
...tape recording was developed a quarter-century ago, it unreeled a whole new way of marketing recorded music. The best tapes had all the high fidelity of phonograph disks but none of their low resistance to wear and tear. The trouble was that they were cumbersome: wound on one reel, they had to be threaded through the playback machine onto another reel, then rewound. In the process, the hapless user could find himself struggling like Laocoon within coils of tape. Before taped music could begin to have the mass appeal of disks, something was needed to simplify the handling...
...secrets of the cartridge's miniaturization is that its tape moves more slowly over the sound pickups than conventional reel-to-reel tape. Since sound quality is related to tape speed, the cartridge sacrifices some high fidelity-but in return it crams in an average of 80 minutes of uninterrupted music. Its biggest market so far has been in autos; since 1966, Detroit manufacturers have offered dashboard-model cartridge players as optional equipment on new models...