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...equipment consisted of a 20-year-old oak rod, an 18-year-old reel and a 36-thread linen line-the same slender line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...
Luther himself was only too conscious of his excesses, and once, when asked why he was so violent, composed a salient epigram on his entire life. "A twig," he said, "can be cut with a bread knife, but an oak calls...
...wearing a blue necktie patterned with tiny oak-wreathed globes: the design of the U.N. flag. For 22 minutes he talked in his flat, monotonous voice, some-time's with a painfully deliberate slowness, occasionally with a breakaway rush to the end of a jumbled phrase. It was a speech that read better than it sounded. To the world it was, in essence, a restatement of America's desire for peace and determination to resist aggression. To the nation, the President's message was a warning that that desire and determination will have to be paid...
...trials that took place there through the centuries. He seems to be chiefly interested in showing off Old Bailey's progress from the dim, grim, soulless courtroom of the Reformation days, when more than 200 different crimes carried the death penalty, to today's "fine and stately" oak-paneled Central Criminal Court, where justices take a not-guilty verdict calmly...
Voice of the People. In Atlanta, Paul Lee Miller, booked for impersonating an officer, told police that he felt entitled to wear a badge because he was once "almost elected sheriff" in Oak Ridge, Tenn...