Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ripples in a shimmering vision of release. On board, however, new catastrophes begin to recur, and Troell must hit the same balance as before. There is scurvy and lice and stink. But there is also the beauty of a calm sea and sunstroked sails, and a joyous on-deck dance. In America, new wonders and horrors are evoked: the awesome countryside and native paraphenalta, the strangeness of the language and the relative social freedom. And slowly, the Swedes become a small community. Old prejudices fade before new awareness and necessity. The whore becomes a lady, the preacher humble, the Neilsons...
...last year, and retails them through VW dealers for $225 to $300 apiece. According to PVT Executive Ray Marino, the concept originated with a company engineer who disliked the front of his VW. PVT also offers other Rolls-Royced accessories for the VW, including bumpers and a "Continentalized" rear deck. "There's no end to what we can do," Marino boasts...
...further legitimate its actions, the CRR ground rules called for undergraduates to select a student membership of four--from a total of 13--to the Committee. Realizing that the Faculty had tossed them a stacked deck, students have three times in the last two years failed to sanction the CRR in University-wide referenda. This clear expression of refusal by the vast majority of the Harvard community has prompted several feeble revisions in the CRR and the Resolution, none of which appreciably altered the distaste with which the Committee is viewed by radicals and moderates alike...
...Airport while taxiing for takeoff to Washington. The captain told four men in the first-class compartment that they would have to either surrender their hand luggage or get off the plane. The reason: their bags contained guns. Sullenly, the men agreed to place the baggage on the flight deck behind the captain's seat. Thus did one pilot express his distaste for guns on his aircraft -even when they are carried by agents of the Secret Service...
Whether bossing a deck detail or spending hours in a saloon ashore, Frank, 47, a chief petty officer with 29 years of service in the U.S. Navy, thought that he could take care of himself. The Navy disagreed. Aware that the chiefs drinking was ruining both his health and his efficiency, his superiors assigned him to one of the service's newest installations, the Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center (ARC) at Little Creek, Va. At first, Frank objected to the assignment: "I'm a chief petty officer and nobody is going to push me around." Several weeks of therapy...