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...command to 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...
...time for all who fear seasickness to take to the lifeboats. The rest of you must cling to the mast." In these ringing quarter-deck tones, President Charles de Gaulle last week warned his ministers that he had set a course into the eye of the storm. His decision: to speed a solution toward an "Algerian republic." The U.S. had just elected a President who in 1957 stirred up a flurry in France by declaring that "the independence of Algeria" was "the essential first step" in North Africa. The Algerian rebels are pressing Morocco hard to grant passage...
Into one hour last week, CBS tried to pack all the news of the previous seven days. Listeners to Hear It Now (Fri. 9 p.m.) heard "drama for the ear" that originated in the trampled snow of North Korea, the drapery-hung walls of Lake Success and on the quarter-deck of the battleship Missouri...
...Nothing Further Removed." In Journey to the Missouri, Author Kase, onetime foreign-office career man, tells his own version of the Japanese story which ended on the quarter-deck of the Big Mo. Sketching in events since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and going through to V-J day, it is by all odds the fullest and most interesting account yet to come from the Japanese side...
...Welcome Home!" roared half a million voices from the crowd clustered 40-deep along the Portsmouth waterfront. Naval batteries thundered salutes. Sirens howled. And from a forest of mastheads bobbing in the harbor royal ensigns dipped in respectful greeting. On the quarter-deck of the Vanguard the Royal Family stood once again, berry-brown and beaming at the end of their 14,000-mile, three-month trip. As the great, grey battleship that had carried them so far slid gracefully into her home berth once more, Princess Elizabeth was so excited that she broke into a dance step. "Oh," cried...