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...record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk-about 300 lbs.-of the tail...
...buffoon--the comic's humor is methodically pointed while the buffoon will do anything, to provoke a laugh, usually with little success. All this leads up to the thesis that after months of waving his lance through the air with little purpose, Lampy has finally found a good, solid chunk of meat to pierce. The result of his galloping attack on the movie industry is by no means a brilliant satire; yet it is well above the usual Lampoon fare and, on the whole, an amusing collection...
Reluctantly, but with a brave show of willingness, U.S. occupiers gave back, chunk by chunk, pieces of the privilege, pomp and plenty which, through history, have been always the rewards and often the corrupters of conquerors. They are not relinquishing it all, by any means. Under the separate Japanese-American agreement allowing U.S. forces to remain in Japan, they will enjoy-but pay for-many extraterritorial privileges...
...peak in Wadi Shaib. Last month, local police patrolling the road to Jerusalem reported that it was walking away. Government officials at Amman at first viewed the report-and the cops-with suspicion. Then they went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved intact to new locations...
...Truman could hardly have picked a worse time to announce he would not run again (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Many dailies had only the usual weekend skeleton crews on hand to handle one of the biggest political stories of the year, and their presses had already rolled off a big chunk of their fat Sunday editions when the big news came through. Most had been decoyed into a false security by an advance text of Truman's speech sent out at 11 a.m. which said not a word about his intentions. Nevertheless, when he news came through...