Word: comebacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comeback...
Large game fish are making a comeback. Virtually wiped out by overfishing, pollution and the eellike sea lamprey (an ocean predator that apparently first migrated from the Hudson River into the lakes after man had opened the way with the Erie Canal, the native lake trout is again being pulled from the lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only...
...saddest reports to come from this year's pre-season football camp was the news that Ron Jellison, the fleet California-born running back who sat out last year after fracturing his skull in a 1978 intrasquad scrimmage, had been advised by team doctors not to attempt a comeback...
...French and their insidious "fashions" [Oct. 29]! First I hear the miniskirt is making a comeback. "Well," I console myself, "you'll just have to live in pants until the phase passes." Then I see your story on the new baggy pants...
...upon, it is the Shah, whom they consider to be murderous. When the U.S. let him in, even for humanitarian reasons, it was almost predictable that there would be a tremendous reaction in Iran." In Bill's view, many Iranians still fear that the Shah might be attempting a comeback, with covert U.S. assistance. "To us that seems ridiculous," says Bill, "but we are dealing with Iranians and their perceptions of reality." Indeed the question of the Shah's admission to the U.S. is a contentious issue among Americans as well as Iranians; some argue that he should have been...