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...even dozen, of course, is convenient for reckoning points of the compass or months of the year. Fourteen is a bother. Hence the two additional constellations, Cetus (the whale) and Ophiuchus (the serpent slayer), have been ignored. Not by Schmidt, who assigns each constellation 26 days instead of 30, making room for Cetus between Aries and Taurus, and for Ophiuchus between Sagittarius and Scorpio. Let the horoscopes fall where they may; his way, Schmidt argues, gives "a better guide to analyzing character...
...otherwise last week. After the unprovoked killing of Patrolman Joseph Tracz, the Cleveland chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police took a full-page ad in the local papers. Next to a large police badge pierced by a bullet, the copy said: "In our minds there is one whale of a difference between being injured or killed while enforcing the law and the rapidly emerging pattern of cop killing and guerrilla warfare." A mailing coupon at the bottom read: "I agree that something must be done about the senseless attacks upon policemen right now. I am in full support...
NIXON AND EISENHOWER. The relationship "was like a Calvinist's relation to God, or Ahab's to the whale." After the Checkers speech, "there would never be any trust between them." In the speech, "Nixon was forced to a public accounting of his finances. But all through his career he has given us public accountings of his moral state . . . I think this explains the vague dislike for Nixon that many experience. It is not caused by any one thing he has done or omitted, but by an oppressive moralism and air of apology...
...multiplied more than tenfold, a rate in excess of global population growth. But the annual world catch-now about 60 million metric tons-cannot continue growing indefinitely. In fact, such sea staples as California sardines, Northwest Pacific salmon and Barents Sea cod -not to mention the beleaguered whale -are already rapidly dwindling. Contrary to the myth, Fisheries Biologist William Ricker recently warned, in a National Academy of Sciences report, the sea is not "a limitless reservoir of food energy...
Reckless Harvest. Even worse, quotas for the rich Antarctic waters continue to be based on the average amount of oil in a blue whale. Blues are the largest whales, often growing to 100 ft. in length and weighing 150 tons. Each contains as much oil as two fin whales, 2½ humpback whales or six sei whales. The net effect of measuring quotas in oil rather than individual species is that whaling expeditions kill everything that spouts; even the smallest whale has value. This year's Antarctic quota of 2,700 "blue-whale units" will cause more little whales...