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...bass should be the lakes of the Southeast, especially Alabama and Georgia. But bass bugs will also be bobbing happily in two huge, new man-made lakes, where careful conservation and fine feed-beds produce topflight fishing; Arizona-Nevada's Lake Mead and the Dale Hollow Reservoir shared by Kentucky and Tennessee. Wisconsin and Minnesota fishermen, with nearly 20,000 lakes to choose from, are itching for more battles with the monster muskies (record catch...
...long-accepted "caloric" theory. In verbose essays, Rumford also discussed such unscientific subjects as pudding eating ("With a spoon . . . begin on the outside, or near the brim of the plate . . . approach the center by regular advances, in order not to demolish too soon the excavation which forms the reservoir for the sauce") and coffee making (he recommended the drip method...
Last week a Marine Corsair pilot, Major David Cleeland, crash-landed on a frozen reservoir, 70 miles north of the front line. Two of the rescue group's chopper pilots grabbed Pop and flew off. They found Cleeland surrounded by Reds who were pouring fire at a dummy which the major had made of his rolled-up parachute and helmet. One mounted Chinese made a one-man cavalry charge at Cleeland, was dropped by a Corsair that swooped...
...hope of turning the flow inward and damming it into a reservoir to serve the public, Idaho legalized slot machines on a local-option basis in 1947. Heavy license fees were imposed. But the results were weird and astounding. Though the state legally controlled them, the slots acted, increasingly, like a virus in the body politic, dividing Idaho citizens against each other, changing the shape of towns, altering social life, wounding business and giving whole communities a surrealistic civic philosophy...
...size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi. Population: 50,000 Belgians, 11 million Bantus and Pygmies. To Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine to the heart of darkness." But Belgian bosses have made the Congo the West's greatest reservoir of strategic minerals: three-quarters of its cobalt, the bulk of its uranium. Administration: unashamed colonialism, with no nonsense about "natives' rights." The natives, under hard-working capitalism, have a living standard far above Central Africa's average...