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...Shannon, the short, freckled bosun, cups his hands around his mouth and bellows, 'All hands on deck! Sail stations!' His words echo across the deserted, fog-wet decks of the Eagle, and men come scrambling up ladders and out of doorways. Dozens pull themselves up into the rigging, swarming 150 ft. above the deck to loosen the tightly furled sails. 'Loose the foreroyal!' cries Shannon. 'Loose the main royal! Man the fore t'gallants'l sheets and halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play...
...command, becoming treasurer of the Navy in 1765 and a rear admiral five years later. Responsible, serious to the point of tediousness, heavy-browed and large-nosed, he is known in the Navy as "Black Dick" Howe, partly because his face has darkened from 30 years of quarter-deck weather, partly because an air of somber resolution has surrounded him ever since he boldly pursued the French fleet among the rocks of QuiberonBay...
...nonetheless appears well-equipped to go the necessary distance with the NLRB. The evaporation of the paternalism upon which Harvard once prided itself notwithstanding, the road still seems pretty clear for the University. As Leslie Sullivan, Medical area organizer for District 65, says, "Harvard is playing with a stacked deck...
...facing." Adds Howard: "I couldn't sleep or eat. I found it hard to focus my mind on what I was doing onstage. I became a zombie, an automaton." But, says Howard, the endless changes that were made in the show were only "like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...
...steeply-tiered upper deck, which rises at least to the level of a Triple-A pop-up, puts one far above the action, an appropriate distance in a shrine, perhaps, but one that allows even Yankee partisans to concentrate exclusively on the fights in the stands and not on their team batting below. But one can't help feeling that they would have watched Ruth or Dimaggio or Mantle take their swings in the circumstances...