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...Perhaps the toughest was the discovery that the ground near Geneva trembles measurably every month or so. "It was found," says CERN's Canadian-born Jack MacCabe, "that these tremors were caused by Atlantic storm waves pounding on the beaches of France." To insulate the accelerator from French surf, the massive (3,800 tons) apparatus had to be mounted on a suspension system...
...Four weeks later, a second victim, Mrs. Dorothy Pearce, 53, was found badly battered in her cottage. In July, Spinster Rosaleen Kenny, 53, was attacked while she slept but her screams frightened the killer away. Finally, fortnight ago, a third victim was found, mutilated by sharks, floating in the surf off Southland beach. She was a pretty, brown-haired office secretary named Dorothy Rawlinson, 29, who had arrived from London in May and liked to sunbathe alone. In the soft pink sand, the cops found a copy of Vicki Baum's thriller, Mortgage on Life, a pair of blood...
...most elusive fish in the sea, the striper is so unpredictable that surf casters have gone for years without a strike. Stripers can sulk offshore for hours far beyond the reach of a line, then flash for the beach on a whim. They can ignore the most ingenious lures bobbed past their noses by experts, then hit something splashed into the water by a novice. Toughest of all to figure are the canny ancients that go 60 lbs. and higher. "The big ones, they travel by themselves," said Oscar. "They like a big rock, and they settle under...
...same reverential awe they reserve for the striper himself. A stumpy 230 lbs., he won last year with a 51-pounder that he promptly sold to "some city feller standing around. Gave me ten dollars." In a monumental battle Oscar once landed a 63-pounder-the island record for surf casting. "I've thrown back more fish than most men have caught," he says matter-of-factly. "Anything less than 30 lbs. doesn't interest me." He would never consider eating a striper he caught -he does not like the taste...
...sight of seagulls gliding over the water at close to stalling speed told him that schools of feeding fish (silversides, English herring, mullet) were boiling along the surface, and that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge...