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...gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife...
...single fish. "It's just unheard of not to catch a fish all day," Zewinski says. Actually, the team was not completely shut out, since Zewinski caught a 6-in. sea robin and hauled in a large clam shell from the ocean bottom. The squad also spotted a female whale but decided not to give chase...
...than 9% of National's stock; later it won Civil Aeronautics Board permission to pick up as much as 25%. As one Wall Street analyst put it, Texas International was a "sardine chasing a shark." Last week the swivel chairs in airline board rooms were spinning again as a whale declared its interest in National. Pan American World Airways, the fifth biggest U.S. airline, said it wanted to buy all of National's shares and was ready to spend $300 million...
Harvard tradition that obliquely involves Emerson is "Boats," a History course on oceanic exploration taught by a professor affectionately known as "Commodore" Perry. Legend has it that a student took the course (something of an easy rid) and wrote a very bogus paper on whales and whaling. Figuring that he would need to dress up his anemic effort a little, he pasted a whale, cut from a National Geographic, onto the front cover of the paper and handed...
...paper, much to his surprise, and he naturally kept it. Next year, a friend took "Boats" and borrowed the same whale paper for the course. He rewrote it a bit, affixed an even more decorative whale to the title page and turned it in. He too got an A-. Naturally, the next year another member of the group took Perry's course and decided to hand in the same paper but calculated that the whale would be a dead giveaway by this time, so he left it off. When the paper came back he was dismayed to find that...