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Ryder is up each morning at six and begins the day by doing 50 pushups and taking a mile-long run through Miami's fashionable Coconut Grove with his three German shepherds. He relaxes by sailing one of his five floating rigs, from a sunfish to a 116-ft., $950,000 yacht. At the office, he is known as a boss who gives full reign on day-to-day matters to his lieutenants but nonetheless makes his opinions known in streams of one-line memos. Ryder's formula for creating the kind of empire that has made...
Some 35 miles farther south on Hawaii is Johno Jackson's isolated plush-primitive Kona Village, three months old. Jackson is a World War II P-51 pilot and California oil millionaire who delights in spinning tales of ancient Hawaii for his guests, offers them skin diving, sunfish sailing, and trips in his Jeep across the cinder beds and lava fields to explore ancient native burial caves. In the sleepy village of Kailua-Kona, close to some of the most exciting fishing grounds of the world (bonefish, blue marlin, Ahi and the jack crevalle), the venerable Kona...
Seeing an opportunity for himself in Castro's sprawling program of land reform, Morgan talked the Agriculture Ministry into giving him charge of a fish hatchery. He raised carp, sunfish and black bass, read up on frogs, soon was ready to expand. Taking over 430 acres of a confiscated ranch along Lake Ariguanabo, Morgan spent $40,000 of the ministry's money digging ditches to hold his frogs, another $30,000 stocking the farm with frogs caught by peasants in the streams and marshes of western Cuba...
...chemicals that might do the trick. In the last 2½years, the Hammond Bay Fishery Laboratory near Rogers City, Mich, has tested more than 5,000 of them. Out of this laborious screening has come a single compound that kills infant lampreys without hurting rainbow trout or bluegill sunfish. It is now being tested on other fish, and if it still looks good, next summer when the streams are low it will get a full-scale test...
...such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas, and a member of the sunfish family). With guides to bait the hooks and take off the fish, it is perhaps the most relaxing form of fishing in the world; Murchison likes it because it gives him time to think...