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...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...
...soundly lionized last week. Vacationing in Florida before returning to Goteborg to enjoy the biggest and loudest victory celebration ever given a homecoming Swede, he drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care of his secretarial requirements. Businessman Johansson's view of any future bouts: he will fight "anywhere...
...weeks in advance. He has his own standards, and they are exacting. He will not fish with a man he does not like, or with a man who will not try Tom Gifford's theories. One of them is that trolling is not the best way to get sailfish; more can be caught using live bait while anchored or drifting along the rim of the coral reefs that edge the Gulf Stream. Snorts Captain Gifford: "The charter thinks he has to troll when he goes big-game fishing, and he gets mad as hell when you stop and anchor...
...Nixon a "son of a bitch." It moved on to Alabama, where New York's Governor Averell Harriman bagged a wild turkey, and to New Orleans, where Harriman found the political hunting not so good. It covered the Florida peninsula, where Adlai Stevenson, fishing for votes, landed a sailfish and a pair of skin divers. It ended in Oklahoma City, where Democrats converged for the explicit purpose of skewering Republicans...
...often sturdier. Sample: the 24-ft. Raven sailboat, a new racing class which has caught on fast, is now being made of Fiberglas, permanently impregnated with paint ($2,885 without sails). Light, low-priced planing sailboats are coming into their own. Simplest of all is the surfboard-like Sailfish, from 10 ft. to 14 ft. ($179 to $295, or in a kit, $139.50 to $179.50). Roberts Industries has a tiny 8-ft. sailing pram, the Guppy, for $117.50 ($225 assembled...