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...Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description of an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel, except that the family would be a shark...
When the Harvard Salt Water Club takes to the sea this spring its target will be no less than blue sharks. The reason for the big game effort is to provide rare shark bile for research in bio-chemistry...
...researcher is Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and the HSWC seems to be the only place from which he can obtain the bile. Earlier, Fieser had been forced to go out and catch his own shark when his request to Marineland Aquarium in Florida netted the reply that they could not find the gall bladder...
...hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy Chinese dine on shark's fins and suckling pigs while outside stand row on row their parked Cadillacs and Daimlers...
...ORLEANS, La., Nov. 16--A four-engine National Airlines plane plummeted into the shark-infested waters of the Gulf of Mexico early today with 36 passengers and six crew members aboard. Coast Guard rescue units picked up nine bodies and intensified the search for others, with little hope held for any survivors...