Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another member of the party, I had retired fishless to the bank for a consoling drink and to wait for Angleton. Finally, he came into view, waist-deep in the icy water and feeling for safe footing among the slippery rocks. He was using a 2¾-oz. Leonard rod and casting with easy grace, the tiny fly landing lightly 80 or 90 ft. below him. He took 1 ½ hours to draw abreast of us, never quitting a run or a pool until he had tested every inch of the surface with one or another of some dozen flies...
...Margaret Thatcher revive Britain 's Conservative Party? Her cure is a brisk dose of Tory principles, laid on smartly with a no-nonsense schoolmistress 's rod. A sampling of the leader's views...
...technique can produce spectacular results. Wendy Clifford, 16, of Minneapolis, literally grew two inches on the operating table as doctors used a Harrington rod to straighten her crooked spine. "I'm glad I had it done," she says. "The doctors told me that by the time I was 30 I would have been completely crippled...
...swimming Bears have lost all four outings so far this season, including an 80-33 thrashing by mediocre Army and a 75-38 thumping by a greatly improved Navy squad. "We're a little disappointed so far," Brown director of sports information Rod Commons said yesterday. "We didn't figure to beat all those teams, but the Springfield loss (64-49) especially hurt...
Though never known as the king of deference, Actor Rod Steiger has plaudits aplenty for the co-star and the director of his newest film, now being completed in Saint-Tropez, France. The movie, tentatively entitled Damned Innocents, features Steiger as an aging husband and Romy Schneider as his wandering-eyed wife, and is directed by New Wave Mastermind Claude Chabrol. Says Steiger of Chabrol: "He understands the necessity of allowing his actors artistic freedom. There isn't that much money to be made, and we have to use all the talent there is." Which, presumably, includes Schneider. "Working...