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...staff turned up some glimpses of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the President's men. Newman told them that he had appraised 828 boxes of the President's general correspondence files in November and early December 1969, with the help of Supervisory Archivist Mary Walton Livingston of the National Archives. On Dec. 24, according to the report, he was told by Nixon's tax attorney, Frank DeMarco, that "there was nothing more...
With such distinguished observers and enthusiasts, it was only a question of time before the sport acquired its own philosopher. Izaak Walton, a draper by trade, was a biographer by avocation, but his chronicles have been forgotten. Only the discursive jottings on his favorite hobby have endured...
...Compleat Angler, published in 1653, remains as fresh today as it was in Oliver Cromwell's time. Through Walton, millions of readers have learned to put as much lead "as will sink the bait to the bottom and keep it still in motion, and not more," and that "when the wind is south, it blows your bait into a fish's mouth." Through Walton's American disciple, Washington Irving, millions more have been apprised of the fact that "there is certainly something in angling ... that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, and a pure serenity...
...even if the streams revive, even if trout, muskellunge and bass thrive tomorrow as they did in Walton's day, a fisherman's luck will remain random and capricious. For most anglers, that will be all right. In the end, they do not gear up for the sole purpose of bringing back a haul of wall eyed pike or edible perch. They also go out in the spirit of that great adventure novelist John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), who once peered beneath the surface of the water and caught the essence of the sport: "The charm...
Earlier, Mahavishnu Bill Walton and his troupe of graduating seniors decided against boycotting the consolation game, and played just enough 9less than one half) to thrash Kansas 78-61 for third place...