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...fell, they clotted along Atlantic Boulevard near the ocean, blocking traffic, emitting their distinctive cries, and sniffing the heady air of freedom. Dawn-and every subsequent dawn-brought proof that they had not been idle. Greek letters appeared on the municipal water tower, coconuts crashed through windows, a dead shark materialized in the Horizon Hotel's swimming pool, and two students were pinched for swimming in the buff. At 1 :30 on Easter morning a car driven by a boy from Ohio careened into the wrong lane and hit a girl from Missouri and a boy from Delaware. Both...
...group of little known islands off the forgotten West Coast of Africa was the perilous paradise he chose. Biggame shark fishing was the excuse he used. He brought back the trophies of a killer of killers and the memories of scenes and experiences so indescribably beautiful he has trouble describing them himself...
...fish call them just fish stories. Cousteau says that he has never been attacked by an octopus?in fact, he has actually waltzed with them dozens of times on the sea floor, and he has movies to prove it. Only once was Cousteau in danger from a shark; and that was when the blood-spoor of a dying whale was near, and the sharks were half-crazy with hunger and excitement. Cousteau scared the beast away by banging him on the nose with his underwater camera. A far greater nuisance, he says, is fire coral, which on contact produces...
...years he searched, visiting savage coasts and coral islands. He almost lost an arm to a loft. shark, was nipped by a poisonous fish. "I was stung, stabbed and bitten," he recalls, "by fishes, fishes, and still more fishes." But never a coelacanth rose to bite him with its catlike teeth...
...prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every longshoreman looked more like the Army than the Army itself...