Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...dragon-a monster!" says one lifelong Bavarian pursuer of the huchen. The fish is a bit of both: triangular head with gaping mouth and reddish eyes, a silver-bellied, copper-backed body that can grow as big as 6 ft. and 110 lbs. With snow on their foreheads and sweat on their cheeks, fishermen have struggled for more than an hour to land even 40-lb. catches, then continued the fight on shore with club and stone. One last-resort tactic: falling full-length on the huchen and smothering it in a snowbank...
...booming through a bull horn: "Shame, shame; shame on you! We have been betrayed by you, Mr. Blundell!" Others cried, "You rat!," and their leader, wiry little highlands farmer, Major Jim Hughes, 63, hurled a handful of coins at Blundell's feet, shouting, "Here are 30 pieces of silver for you, Judas-go on, pick them up!" (Said Blundell later: "It's due to his living at 8,300 feet...
...down by its girl skiers, the U.S. rested its hopes for individual gold medals on a pair of figure skaters. The confidence was well placed. In the climactic free skating, New York City's blonde Carol Heiss, 20, four-time world champion since she took a silver medal in 1956, flashed a smile that was only a trifle too tight, soared effortlessly through an intricate routine (the show stopper: two successive, whirling leaps taken from alternate skates), and easily won her gold medal to keep a promise made to her dying mother in 1956. Daughter of a baker...
Hugh Griffith is Long John Silver...
...tribesmen, clad in red-and-blue turbans, black pants and tunics, and weighted down with massive silver ankle-rings and foot-and-a-half-long hairpins, arrived with the jam, the boys at the Snow Leopard sent their Chinese agents to bid for the crop. Even though this has been a bad year for poppies-there was a two-month drought in the hills-the Meo are getting only the equivalent of $20 a kilo (2.2 lbs.). The same kilo, when it reaches the Laotian capital of Vientiane, will be worth $60; at Saigon in South Viet Nam it will...