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Billy Budd, a handsome and guileless young sailor, steps on deck of H.M.S. Avenger one day in 1797, impressed into naval service at a time when the French threatened the British navy on one hand and the spirit of mutiny sapped it on the other. His shipmates are a sorry, ragtag lot, full of hate and fear for the sadistic master-at-arms, Mister Claggart. They find in Billy Budd's artless warmth a hope that somehow he can save them from Claggart's bullying; even the Avenger's aloof Captain Vere takes a liking...
Billy's almost allegorical Goodness is incomprehensible to Claggart; the boy seems ignorant of the possibility of evil in anyone. One night, coming off watch and seeing Claggart brooding by the rail, Billy asks permission to stay on deck and look at the sea. "I suppose the Handsome Sailor may do many things forbidden to his messmates," says Claggart. "You have a pleasant way with you, Billy. Tell me, what do you think of me?" And Billy replies, "I never met a man like you. sir. The nights are lonely. Perhaps I could talk to you between watches...
...trap him, he sends for Billy Budd to deny the charge. Billy, facing Claggart in Vere's cabin, struggles to speak, but can only make the terrible sounds of stammering. Suddenly, he gives action to his horror with a lunging, double-fisted blow that sends Claggart to the deck, dead with a broken skull...
...keep Sigma 7 afloat. Then the Kcarsarge launched a whaleboat, which attached a line to the capsule. With Navy punctilio. Schirra formally asked the Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch on deck. Schirra climbed out and was borne away for a physical examination and hours of dictating his observations. Doctors reported that he showed no ill effects from his nine-hour flight...
...Linda Lawson) falls in love with the boy vet, Charlie tries to ship the boy out-but no chicken colonel can dispose of the fellow who saves the parakeet that belongs to the granddaughter of an old man in blue denims who seems to have been scraped off the deck of a river barge but turns out to be the first cousin of Charles de Gaulle...