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...legal precedents that apply to Orval Faubus v. the U.S. reach all the way back to a September night during the Revolutionary War when a Connecticut fisherman named Gideon Olmstead, two seamen and a boy, imprisoned aboard the British sloop Active, rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold...
...been taking the lives of brave and adventurous men, must have received more human bodies into its ocean graveyard during the years 1939-45 than in all other naval wars since the fleets of Blake and Van Tromp grappled in the Narrow Seas." And Rear Admiral Morison, U.S.N.R., adds: "Sailormen all, and passengers too, we salute...
...book. (His latest: Hadrian's Memoirs.} Actually, he gets little chance to relax. During his last tour in Washington, he read reports and ate hot dogs at his desk during his lunch hour, telephoned aides any time between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. Like all blue-water sailormen, he is at his best in combat. Burke's memory of combat: "Things that used to be important become completely unimportant. Good food was important. A glass of beer was important. What your shipmates thought of you was important. But what was written down on some piece of paper...
...South Africa. For O'Neill, the sea was a mystic experience. Some of his best plays, e.g., The Moon of the Caribbees and some of his worst, e.g., Anna Christie, are salty with the tang of the sea, saltier still with the tongue of lonely, hard-bitten sailormen...
...soon they streamed ashore, fresh-faced young sailormen in small and large parties directed by ship's officers and Russian embassy guides. They drove to London, to Salisbury Cathedral, to Windsor Castle, chorusing sea chanteys and waving at girls. They watched the Queen review the Guards, took in a debate at the House of Commons, stood for ten minutes in the rain at Karl Marx's grave. "Their guide allows them two minutes to see the Tower of London," said the Daily Mirror. "Then he gives them the works. The drab back streets where the poor live...