Word: nore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Singh, 36, is the Maharajah of Kashmir and, as such, is the first Indian prince ever to serve in a Cabinet. His talents as a Sanskrit scholar, poet and pianist attracted Indira's attention. The question now is whether he can help India project an image that lures nore tourists-and hard currency-to the country...
...tough problems of U.S. North ern school integration - the ironies of good intentions and painful misunder standings, the subtleties of trying to ig nore skin color while trying to take it into account, the vain hope of having schools that serve both slums and middle-class neighborhoods- welled up last week in New York City's Harlem...
James Dugan's fine, wry, if somewhat overlong story re-creates the greatest mass mutiny in maritime history. It began in the Channel fleet stoppering Brest, spread like an infection through the anchorages at Spithead and the Nore, up to the North Sea and down 6,000 miles to ships lying off the Cape of Good Hope. Before it sputtered out, the mutineers numbered 50,000, controlled more than 100 vessels, blockaded London, and laid their country naked to her foes. Dugan's scrupulously unemotional narrative does not conceal his conviction that the mutinous seamen were right...
...seamen struck. Better pay and decent food, shore leave, protection against brutality-these were among the modest demands of men who continued to show their deposed officers elaborate courtesy and swore unshakable fidelity to the Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered for insubordination. But the Admiralty overrode...
Lost Resolution. The government's obduracy was backed by a quarantine so effective that not even mail, much less provisions, came aboard the ships. The unity of the Nore began to dissolve; defecting ships cut their lines at night and drifted away; loyalist cells formed in the mutinous crews, and there were bloody fights aboard. By lune, the great mutiny was over, a victim of its own irresolution. The Admiralty briskly hanged Parker and 35 other mutineers with a minimum of legal niceties and got back to the wars...