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...midwaters between the surface and the bottom, a region usually neglected by commercial fishermen, swarm with great schools of hake. Often the giant net has caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...
...PUMPKIN EATER. Anne Bancroft portrays with dazzling perception a well-kept British matron who endures three husbands, a swarm of children, and a nervous collapse before she realizes that all's not well in her pumpkin shell...
Hopefully, Harvard will not allow itself to degenerate into an intellectual factory capable of nothing more than spewing out a myriad of narrow-minded technicians and pedants. Hopefully, the scholars who swarm into and out smoked-filled rooms to discuss the Doty Report will not fail to notice the inscription which ornaments the backs of their little black chairs--Veritas...
...This is a land so vast," reports TIME'S Hong Kong bureau, "that winter snows are already howling across large areas of it while other expanses still simmer in humid tropical heat. A land so fragmented that millions upon millions of its human swarm cannot understand the dialect spoken by millions and millions more. So ancient that its past is a palpable presence, and so modern that it has jolted the world with an atomic explosion. So expansionist that its neighbors have lived in varied degrees of fear since before the birth of Christ, and so troubled internally that...
...Seesaw and the iron-willed mentor of The Miracle Worker, stretches her talents to astonishing breadth as Mrs. Jake Armitage, a British matron who believes that incessant procreation is what's right with the world, not what's wrong with it. This elemental drive brings her a swarm of children and several hard-pressed husbands, the last of whom (Peter Finch) jolts her out of bovine contentment by becoming a rich and famous screen writer...