Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deep in the bowels of the ship, Fire Controlman Second Class Jim Fagan of Miami holds the portable trigger in his hand, nonchalantly squeezing the lever when he gets the signal over his headphones. "I don't feel like I'm part of this war," says one sailor. "I never see what we're shooting at, or whether it does any good...
...pocket-sized electronic calculator that almost instantaneously flashes answers in bright numbers. A tabletop clock that at the press of a button displays with lighted numerals the hour, minute and second in any of the world's 24 time zones. A transistorized depth-finder that tells the Sunday sailor in glowing red numbers exactly how many feet, or fathoms, of water lie under his keel. These futuristic devices, already on the market, are only samples of the dazzling consumer spin-offs from a totally new scientific field called "optoelectronics"-the marriage of modern optics with space-age electronics...
...Century elegance again to pitch and roll, oddly enough, with a poem called "Pitching and Rolling." (That's the 20th Century, folks.) With an unstirring, hovering voice, Barry Boys squeezed out the main word of the poem, "reeeeeeling!" He was so absolutely incongruous that he seemed to be a sailor chantyman riding shotgun on a stagecoach...
...life of the average Soviet sailor-at least by comparison with that of his counterpart in the U.S. Navy -is austere, uncomfortable, constrained and boring. Some U.S. experts feel that if American sailors had to live under the same conditions, they would all mutiny...
Aboard ship, the sailor is even more subject to discipline and ideological indoctrination than his civilian brothers at home. "Recreation time" is filled with Communist Party lectures, propagandistic books and films. TV shows visible in foreign ports are often banned as "corrupting." Ashore or at sea, the sailors' activities are closely watched by the ship's zampolit (political officer), a combination cheerleader, disciplinarian and father-confessor. He is the deputy of the ship's captain, with full authority to punish any wayward salt...