Word: salmone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial recessed for the weekend, Justice Cyril Salmon dismissed the jurors with a warning not to watch Liberace's Sunday night TV show because it might prejudice them. After the show they had watched all week, a night off probably was a welcome relief...
...later to catch the American Holiday on Ice show at the Lenin Sports Palace with his son Sergei, as well as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and cronies from the Central Committee. Afterward, in a private room at the back of the hall, Khrushchev gave a caviar-and-smoked-salmon party for the cast, scattering bear hugs and backslaps among hearty toasts in brandy. There was no talk of politics...
...trade. Before a British commercial group in London, a Soviet trade expert read off a blunt message from Nikita Khrushchev: "Countries that are interested in increasing their exports to the Soviet Union should increase their purchases from it." Most of what the Russians are willing to sell (e.g., tinned salmon), the British are unwilling to buy. Britain already imports more from the Russians than it sells to them. Besides, Khrushchev made plain, he is interested in East-West trade only "provided that credits are extended us," and if the British do not want trade that badly, "we shall not take...
...Soviets from their traditional northwestern Pacific fishing waters, Japanese boats are ranging far into the mid-Pacific to intercept the salmon as they head for Alaska spawning grounds, trap tens of millions before they can reproduce. Up to 20% of Bristol Bay red salmon runs in 1957 bore the telltale scars of long, fine-meshed Japanese gill nets, which can be strung to form a solid, ten-mile barrier across the ocean. By using these nets, say U.S. fishermen, the Japanese kill many immature, Alaska-born salmon and violate the intent of a 1953 treaty designed to prevent the Japanese...
...Navy planes kept a 24-hour watch, a Russian fishing fleet of 64 boats cruised off Alaska's Pribilof Islands. "Research into fish migrations," explained the Soviets. The Alaskans see another purpose: they think that the Russians are lying in wait for the thick schools of salmon just beginning their annual spawning...