Word: trawler
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...from Falmouth, Mass., for the other Falmouth 3,200 miles away, thinking no one would pay any attention. No one did until a fortnight ago, when it suddenly seemed possible that he was actually going to make it all the way to England. Then came the world headlines. Falmouth trawler captains gave up fishing to haul boatloads of journalists in search of the red-sailed dinghy; some reporters even clambered aboard to interview Manry at closer range. Then, heightening the drama, Manry went unsighted for a week before the last 55 miles to safety...
...turnabout, however, had been engineered not by the Press, but by Cleveland TV station WEWS, which had also dispatched a team of newsmen to England. They had avoided the swarm of competitors waiting at Falmouth and had set out to sea from Penzance in a $500-a-day fishing trawler. When they were 265 miles out, they spotted Manry, who invited them aboard. They interviewed him for three and a half hours on sound film, then telephoned the gist of their interview to Cleveland from the trawler. WEWS, also owned by Scripps-Howard, operates independently of the Press...
...Then, when a large number of dark-skinned Asians, Africans and West Indians began flocking to Britain in the early 1950s, the British at first consoled themselves with the thought that these tropical people had only come to earn a nest egg, and would return to buy a trawler in Barbados or a camel in Karachi...
...Secret Invasion. "Achtung!" One misty midnight in the fall of 1943, the glare of a flare illuminates a tiny trawler wallowing off the coast of Yugoslavia. "Wer geht da?" the captain of a German patrol boat bellows in his bullhorn...
...past two years, the Brazilians have paid little mind to fishermen from Brittany who dropped their nets near by and returned home with holds filled with the live, spiny lobsters. Occasionally the Brazilian navy stopped a trawler for venturing too near shore, but there was little fuss about it. Then two months ago, local lobstermen woke up to the fact that the French were nipping quite a chunk out of their $3,000,000 annual export business. Hair-triggered Brazilian jingoists joined in the protest...