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...streets like ghosts fleeing a graveyard at dawn. Here & there, watching the crowds from street corners or hotel lobbies, stood men either in uniform or in ankle-length black leather coats-which in the popular mind is the unofficial uniform of the dreaded security police, "Udruzenje Drzavne Bez-bednosti," called "Oodbah," formerly OZNA...
...almost shaking off his fur cap in his vehemence, summed up their feelings. He said: "The heads of our Governments would better solve the problems if they sat down at a table over a glass of wine." Then he quoted an old Russian saying: "Bez butylki ne razberesh" (You can't solve anything without a bottle...
...Wallgren]." A Seattle industrialist playing dominoes turned and frowned disapprovingly until someone whispered: "That's Nick Bez. You know, fishing." The frown promptly dissolved into an understanding smile...
...years ago the frown would have stayed. Few around Puget Sound bothered to inquire about Nick Bez until he was photographed rowing the boat as President Truman fished for salmon in Puget Sound in 1945 (see cut). Puget Sounders learned that hard-muscled, hard-talking Nick Bez was quite a fisherman himself. He owned or controlled 1) three of the biggest salmon canneries in Alaska, 2) a string of fishing vessels, 3) two gold mines, 4) an airline-West Coast Airlines, which next month will start a feeder service fanning from Portland into southwest Washington and western Oregon. Since then...
Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...