Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of Japan's Fisheries Agency Research Department, he went to a fisheries conference in Washington. There he heard about brine-shrimp eggs, on which American fanciers feed finicky tropical fish. When he fed the eggs to infant prawns back in Japan, he brought them safely through infancy into reasonably hardy youth...
...three days the 67-ft. shrimp boat Ala drifted eastward through the Florida Straits, nudged along by the Gulf Stream. Its diesel engines had burned out, its radio was powerless, it was taking water. The two Negro shrimpers out of Florida's Fort Myers stood knee-deep in water, bailing for their lives. Near dusk, a MIG jet out of Cuba swooped toward the boat...
...long history of the cold war, there have been many more provocative incidents. But the reaction to the shrimp boat incident served to show how high U.S. tensions have risen about Cuba. Cried Democratic House Speaker John McCormack: "An act of aggression." Said Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd: "A shocking thing." Declared Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell: "An act of piracy. I would favor a policy of hot pursuit on any attacking MIGs. I would follow them back to Cuba...
...Committee. Among the President's guests: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, and, of course, the most prominent Negro members of the Administration-Robert C. Weaver, head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Carl Rowan, Ambassador-designate to Finland. Menu: shrimp Creole, curried chicken, ham, turkey, and two kinds of punch, not counting the political kind...
...Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender is as juicy and peppery as the shrimp jambalaya that he cooks up for friends. An oldtime Huey Long lieutenant and a longtime (25 years) member of the Senate, Ellender enjoys nothing more than whisking around the world to reaffirm his conviction that the U.S. is misspending its money on foreign aid. Since 1946, he has made six globe-girdling tours, two side trips to Latin America, three to Europe, and four to the Near Middle and Far East and the Balkan countries. In his travels, Ellender shoots 16-mm. movies, shows them...