Word: mates
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...Australians. Naturally our awareness of these matters is rising, and for this reason the joint venture is ideally suited to both the mood and the needs of the nation. Australians and Americans are similar people. It should be a good mix." As they say in Australia, Good on you, mate -- and welcome aboard...
Master Chief Boatswain's Mate John Davidson from Malden, Mass., didn't have to come out of retirement to be selected. He had first sailed on the Missouri as a seaman first class in 1946 when she carried the body of the wartime Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. back to Istanbul to be buried. Since then he's seen ports of call from Australia to Italy and been tattooed by the best in Norfolk, Va., Hong Kong, Yokohama and Pearl Harbor. With just over 40 years in service, Davidson isn't padding his pension. He can't improve...
...vessel, just back from a 15-month European tour, had anchored briefly at the U.S. Virgin Island port of St. John, and was sailing north toward Baltimore on May 14 when the weather turned nasty. The twelve crew members shortened sail to handle the heavy winds. Suddenly, recalled First Mate John Flanagan, "a wall of wind and water" smashed into the Pride with devastating force. "In what seemed like slow motion the boat laid over to port," said Flanagan. There was no time to sound an alarm over the Pride's radio...
...Favorite Father" celebrates the foibles and frustrations of parenthood. Plus the oldest Playmate of the Year and the youngest reigning monarch, the kings of late- night television and the King of K, an Olympic gymnast who flexes her show- biz talent and a Soviet dissident who meets her onscreen mate...
Both Southern and office-mate Rulan C. Pian, professor of East Asian languages and civilizations and of music, say they believe the Music Department to be more democratic than many other departments that have a higher proportion of men. "I think the Music Department is one of the friendliest departments toward women professors and minority professors. We have three women. There is no other department like it," Pian says...