Word: whaling
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...sprawling as the city it covers, the Los Angeles Times is known to local wits as the "gray whale." Fired with ambition to have their product regarded as equal in scope and weight to the New York Times and Washington Post, Times editors appear to have all but given up on editing: stories go on seemingly forever. Southern California's prosperity, which was reflected in a nation-leading total of 154.4 million lines of advertising last year, has ballooned the paper to an average of 111 pages daily, vs. 96 for the New York Times. Each edition is chockablock...
...supplies from a coastal landing pad near Beirut International Airport to the waiting ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet outlined, gray on gray, on the horizon. Nudged by a forklift truck, a long-barreled 155-mm howitzer trundled slowly down a jetty and disappeared, like Jonah into the whale, inside a landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other vehicles until finally the landing craft pulled away to make room for another. At one point an armored personnel carrier manned by Shi'ite Muslim militiamen rattled past a U.S. observation tower. The driver raised...
Travel reading, when you think about it, is a fairly odd pastime. Essentially, the travel reader is paying someone else, the travel writer, to take a trip for him: not a perilous hunt for the white whale or the source of the Niger, usually, but just a plain old trip. The writer agrees, by implication, to inspect sunsets and pretty girls, to sniff sea air when this is appropriate, to eat and drink fearlessly, to be overcharged by taxi drivers, and to report back. The reader agrees, for some reason, to subsidize this gamboling...
...fired a few AK-47 rounds and scrambled into a waiting motorboat with three comrades. Two of the Americans were grazed. (The week had started with a wild rumor that Soviet commandos had put ashore. Their submarine turned out to be, in the words of a U.S. spokesman, "a whale and two intoxicated fishermen...
...Betty have just returned from Florida and they are full of news about Sea World. Betty shows Waldeen her new lote bag with a killer whale pictured...