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...announcement, typed on H.A.A. stationery, displayed the Eastern Intercollegiate Spear Fishing Association rules for the new sport. Referees will release 100 fish in the Blockhouse pool, while "forwards" from each 12-man team will jump in to spear the fish. "Backs" will remain on the sidelines to spear the forwards. Fish who fight back will be disqualified, and backs who wound forwards above the neck will be barred after the third infraction...
Tastes: Rolls his own cigarettes, likes bourbon (two drinks), underwater spear fishing, fox-hunting and polo...
...Moslems of Ghardaqa, who wrap their own women like mummies, watched with open amazement as she went down to the sea in a bathing suit. Their jaws dropped even lower when she cruised face down on the surface, aerated by a snorkel tube, and skewered fish with a spear. "But," said Dr. Clark, "they seemed to get used to it after a time...
...Comptroller's office, Miss Mabel Spear and Miss Louise Schlesinger, both long-term employees, are in charge of two of the most important aspects of the University. Miss Spear does all the work on the hundreds of student loans; Miss Schlesinger handles the room contracts for the College and the Law School...
ALONG the marshy banks of Lake Scutari on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, red-kerchiefed shepherdesses tend their flocks, and on the lake, fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family...