Word: sailfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liver Shippers. From Puntarenas, on the Pacific Coast," saltwater fishermen set out to tackle big niarlin and sailfish, and each spring the river mouths along Costa Rica's Caribbean coast are choked with spawning snook and tarpon-so thick that thousands can sometimes be seen roiling the surface of the water. Where the school fish congregate, so do the predators-monster sawfish, and sharks, sharks, sharks. Using only hand lines, fishermen of the Caribbean village of Colorado last year caught 1,800 sharks in less than three months-and shipped the livers to Chinese medicine makers on Formosa...
...passing yachtsmen put into the placid bay, with its long, empty scythe of golden beach and tile-roofed houses climbing the slopes behind. The fishing was great-leaping sailfish and 400-lb. black marlin. The daytime temperature was in the 70s; in the evening, cooling breezes blew down from the mountains, and the mariachi music lasted far into the night. In the early 1950s a dozen or so Americans went to live in Vallarta. Friends came to visit-and hurried back on their own. Before long, Mexicana Airlines started flying in DC-3s, then DC-6s daily from Mexico City...
...advised to try Schrafft's down the street. Furnished in what historians of the day termed "early Butte, Montana" style, Bleeck's boasted mahogany-paneled walls and clustered electric globes, a suit of concrete-filled armor on which many a combative drunk broke his knuckles, a stuffed sailfish that had been caught by J. P. Morgan, and some of the best broiled chicken in town. For years no female was admitted except Minnie the cat, and Bleeck offered his hungry male customers hearty German fare served on clothless tables by waiters with wiener-schnitzel accents...
...Castro newspaper in Cuba (see PRESS). But if the bearded Castro himself really thought his country in peril, he hardly showed it. He escorted Indonesia's President Sukarno around the island, then took ship for the "Hemingway Tourney.'' Castro's impressive catch: a 46-lb. sailfish and three marlin weighing...