Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test operations, the bureau used a light airplane to spot herring schools approaching the channel between Great Diamond and Peaks islands. When a school was sighted, the bureau's boats ran a 1,200-ft. length of perforated polyethylene pipe out into the channel. Air pumped into the hose by a compressor bubbled out through the holes. When the herring came to the white curtain, they turned aside, swam along it into the trap...
...verse form so old that its origin vanishes in the mists of antiquity, the haiku is distinctly Japanese, like the no drama, where crossed planks do for a shogun's litter. No occasion passes, among haiku composers, without hundreds of commemorative haiku, frequently written on the spot. A thief, about to be hanged for his crime, couched his last words in the haiku form: "As for the end -/ that I'll hear in the next world./ cuckoo, my friend." For the lower-brows there are even earthy haiku, called senryu in honor of their creator, who died more...
...gambling joints, movie houses. The police and Batista's dreaded Military Intelligence Service counter-terrorized Cuba by killing suspected underground members, leaving their bodies on busy sidewalks to be seen by stenographers going to work. In reprisal a Santiago mother placed a wreath at night on the exact spot where her son was slain. An arrogant cop kicked the flowers away next morning and was blown to bits by the bomb beneath...
Communists, strong in the new labor organization but weak elsewhere, will try to stir anti-U.S. hatreds. Che Guevara, a frank proCommunist, will give Communism all the help he can in the new army. A Communist-lining journalist, Carlos Franqui, is in a powerful spot as editor of the official rebel newspaper, Revolución. But Cubans know the U.S. too well to swallow the usual Communist whoppers. Any party that wins free elections in Cuba will doubtless be in the Western camp...
Smith had some warmup for his new show. Since October 1957, he has appeared on a daily CBS-TV news program as a news analyst, but is limited to a 90-second spot. Behind the News provides him with 30 minutes for the same job. He mixes in film clips, unrehearsed dialogues with special guests, and visual aids with his own commentary. But more time is not enough. Smith's first two programs (devoted to the U.S. visit of Russia's Anastas Mikoyan and the ascendancy of French President Charles de Gaulle) were not very deep. As usual...