Word: testings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...membership in sport fishing's most prestigious organization: the Ten-to-One Club, started in 1960 by the Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club and limited to "those anglers who, unaided, set the hooks, fight and bring to gaff a fish weighing ten times the wet test of the line used...
...eight years, only 164 anglers around the world have qualified for the Ten-to-One Club. Notable among them is Florida's Stu Apte, 37, a Pan American pilot and professional fisherman on the side, who qualified with an 82-lb. Pacific sailfish on threadlike 5-lb. test. In Australia, the Sydney Game Fishing Club has just started a Fifteen-to-One Club, and President John S. Quill says: "In the past year, a dozen fishermen would have qualified...
...patiently cast to 20 striped marlin before he finally snagged a 148-lb. beauty with his $12 fly rod and $20 reel. That fight took a mere 4½ hours. Stu Apte has a 151-lb. tarpon to his credit, caught on a fly rod with a 12-lb.-test leader. Bob Zwirz, 42, a fishing writer, actually used the same fly rod last year to catch a 5-lb. brook trout in Canada and a 92-lb. tarpon in Florida...
...little bait fishing itself. Anxious to retrieve his line, Boadby leaned over the gunwale, gaffed the shark and trussed it to his boat-thereupon technically setting a light-tackle record that is likely to remain unchallenged for quite some time. Boadby's line was 6-lb.-test monofilament. The shark weighed...
...timely request not to be included. Courts therefore take careful precautions to be sure that the individual in the case will adequately represent the general cause and that his interests clearly parallel those of the entire class. Eisen's case was the first major Court of Appeals test of the new rules, and the Second Circuit held that the district judge erred in refusing to accept Eisen's suit as a class action. In so doing, the court emphasized that the rules should be interpreted as liberally as possible. If the cause of action is apparently valid, said...