Word: sturgeon
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...Astaurov figures that his techniques will soon be advanced enough to try on sturgeons. He plans to start with crude caviar-unfertilized eggs that have been stripped from the female fish. If he succeeds in forcing the eggs to produce females only, the fish that graduate from scientific hatcheries will gradually dominate the sturgeon population. The only males left to swim with the caviar-rich females will be the product of old-fashioned natural spawning in waters unsupervised by the state...
...guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials, new and old rich. The after-dessert throng carried on in grand style till dawn and on. By then the hardy stragglers were surfeited with champagne, whisky and sturgeon eggs-plus beer for the inelegant and unlimited milk for nondrinkers. When the fireworks, dancing (to three orchestras) and tippling (at four bars) were all over, many of the elite-ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland to conspicuously untitled Douglas Fairbanks Jr.-had perhaps even forgotten the purpose...
...Algonac, Mich, on the St. Clair River. Algonac was a tough sailors' town situated in the midst of busy Great Lakes maritime commerce. There were a few small hotels, a general store, plenty of canvasback and redhead ducks, walleyed pike, yellow perch, black bass and an occasional sturgeon-and lots of sitting...
Birds & Bees. Last year Americans nibbled away $2,860,000 worth of Iranian and Russian sturgeon caviar, $1,000,000 worth of pâté de foie gras. Besides these two favorite standbys, last week's show brought out a cornucopia of new items. Chicago's Reese Finer Foods Inc. showed off a full pantry, from a $300 gift package of 60 items-Portuguese anchovies, Swiss candies, etc., stacked atop a barrel-based table-to 3½-oz. aerosol cans of cheese spread that sell for 59?. For the brave and the bold, there were the birds...
...talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list of banned books. Enterprising Publisher Ian Ballantine quickly had publicity-prone Shepherd ghostwrite such a book (with Fantasy-Fiction Writer Theodore Sturgeon). Some 30 days later they served up an 18th century creampuff (" 'Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a saucy bawd!' ") dedicated to night people...