Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes so fast, in fact, that the Secret Service has had to buy two new speedboats to keep up with him when he is at full throttle (four boats in all accompany him). "Here comes Linton" (hill-country pronunciation of the President's name), chuckle the fishermen as the armada approaches, or-if they happen to have blinked-"There goes Linton...
...something else as well. "At first it had to be hamlet chief, schoolteacher and doctor," says a U.S. official, "a surrogate government in effect." A census of the villagers' grievances and needs was taken, and within weeks they were being met. Roads were repaired, loans granted to fishermen for larger boats, new motors, new nets. A school was set up, a health center built, fertilizer trucked in, a new sewing machine sent from Saigon after the women were organized into sewing groups...
Stranger yet to Palomares fishermen were the Jules Verne trawling capsules imported by the Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb...
...imprisoned for trespass. He began in Trapetto, a no-hope town of 2,800, and improvised from day to day the program of action-religious, economic and political-that marks his movement today. He took on the Mafia, which controlled illegal trawler fleets that were robbing the local fishermen of their livelihood. He played the organ in church and criticized the parish priest for his refusal to allow barefoot children to attend Mass. He begged money for food for the starving. He tried to do something about the ancient stink of the picturesque airless houses and to stop children playing...
...Siberian offer was to Japanese businessmen the most exciting in a series of recent economic dealings with Russia. Only a few years ago, the Soviets were harshly imprisoning Japanese fishermen who came too close to Siberian shores. The Russians became friendlier in 1963, when their troubles with China increased. The fishermen were freed, and goodwill and trade delegations were sent to Japan. A Pacific-fisheries agreement followed. In the past two months, the Russians and Japanese have signed a commercial air agreement and a new fiveyear, $2.1 billion trade agreement...