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...contributions, your reporter wrote, inter alia, that Biafrans are being "starved out by the Nigerians". Having embraced the theme of Ibo jewishness, Biafra sympathizers complete the plot by assigning to Nigerians the role of the monster Hitler. Such baseless attribution of sadism to Nigerians can come only from a dangerously naive mind or a totally malicious...
Television, of course, suffers from the self-justification syndrome worse than any other group. While reporters have to fill a few pages a day with Convention material (which varies remarkably little from one newspaper to another), the network people--especially CBS and NBC--have committed themselves to feeding the monster as much as eight or nine hours a day with this stuff. This is a little like trying to write a full-length biography of a still-born baby. The networks end up interviewing delegates and candidates over and over again, asking them the same insipid questions, occasionally shifting...
...estimated at 15 ft. long. Young actually brought the fish to gaff six times. Each time the gaff tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire was so discombobulated that he "bird's-nested" his reel; the line snapped. "It's just as well," he sighed. "Otherwise I would have lost all that good line...
...Monster. The job can be dangerous as well as difficult. At The Geysers, a new well erupted with such furious force that the scalded workmen were convinced they had tapped a live volcano. To cool it off, they pumped in cold water until a nearby stream ran dry. Then they tried a concrete plug, without success. "The Monster," as they dubbed the well a decade ago, continues to spout...
McCarthy's entrance to Fenway Park was a magnificent spectacle. Precisely at 9:30 when Leonard Bernstein gave the cue a garage door opened in the "big green monster," as the center field wall is known. McCarthy's motorcade drove out of the wall across to left field where the grey-haired candidate emerged from his limousine surrounded by police...