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...recent years, however, the menhaden has been in decline, and with it all of the largest U.S. fisheries, which dropped from a peak 1961 catch of 2.3 billion lbs. to 1966's 1.3 billion. The worst hit area has been the mid-Atlantic, where poundage dived from 130.2 million in 1965 to 17.4 million in 1966 -and last month, as the fishing craft set out for another season, the outlook was dim. Spotter planes that precede the boats saw few menhaden schools...
Died. Lieut. General Glen R. Birchard, 53, head of the Alaskan Command, who, during the Berlin airlift, developed intricate plans that enabled the Air Force to hit a peak flow of an average 624 planes daily into the besieged city, finally took over the Alaskan Command in August 1966, was responsible for the operations of 40,000 military personnel; of drowning after his float plane crashed on takeoff from Upper Ugashik Lake, Alaska, during a fishing trip...
Proud Clarion, according to observers, has lost weight and does not look at the peak of his Derby form, while Damascus has apparently thrived on the work. Still, the Derby cannot be discounted, and Proud Clarion should get a piece of the money...
...National Bank of Chicago, "is running well in excess of the available supply of money." As a result, despite Federal Reserve pressure to keep borrowing costs low enough to stimulate the economy, interest rates on corporate and municipal bonds have climbed back to a point close to their 1966 peak. As the money pinch began easing late last year, yields of Aa-rated corporate bonds dropped from September's 6.35% zenith to a low of 5.20% by the end of January. By last week, the rate was back to 5.95% and still going...
...pickets appeared outside the agency shortly before noon, at its peak business hour. They carried signs reading "Are you touring Greece to see the cradle of democracy or a country under fascism?" and "Come to the Harvard Travel Agency; tell them you support free elections in Greece and buy a ticket for some other place...