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...ship's skipper is Paul Ramsey, 48, a trim-mustached four-striper (Annapolis '27), a top-notch Navy flyer in World War II, who is prone to roar "What the Hell!" when things go wrong in combat. The 3,000 officers and men call him "Captain Paul," and he refers to his crew as "Ramsey's Little Lamseys...
Once, when the Philippine Sea was heading away from Korea for rest and relaxation in Yokosuka, Japan, it was Ramsey's idea to give his crew three extra hours of sleep beyond the normal 0600 reveille. At 0900, a dulcet announcement was piped over the ship's intercom: "Good morning. This is your friendly boatswain's mate. It's oh-nine-hundred and time to turn out. If you are hungry after your long sleep, there are coffee and sweet rolls waiting for you in the galley." Whereupon the ship's Dixieland band crashed into...
...Hilton hotel than the high seas. This ship's mascot, a German shepherd called "Mr. X" (because his real name is the ship's secret code name), has the run of the ship. The contented crew has already pitched in $6,000 for the March of Dimes. Ramsey's proudest boast, as his ship weighed anchor for California: during the entire nine-month s cruise, he never had a man in the brig; instead, the brig was used for the storage of dishes and galley supplies...
...second main objection, Ramsey explained is that under former immigration laws many of America's most important physicists entered the country without being subject to the regular immigration quota. But under the McCarran Act this is impossible, with the result that the movement of foreign scientific talent to this country will slow down or cease...
...American Physical Society, the American academy of Science and other non-political group of scientists have adopted resolutions against the act for these reasons Ramsey concluded...