Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...base pay of a seaman is six rubles per month (about $7). Sailors on duty at northern bases get an additional two rubles per month, and base pay is doubled for submarine crews. A specialist, like a sonar technician, earns about $10 per month, a chief warrant officer about $55, a lieutenant $65 and a captain $135, which is doubled if he commands a ship. There are enormous differences between the life-styles and privileges of the various ranks. Officers above the rank of commander, for instance, are provided with housing near bases for their families; enlisted sailors-mostly three...
CALIFORNIA has become a prosperous country, and San Francisco Bay, so lovingly described by Seaman Dana in Two Years Before the Mast, is the focus of West Coast commerce. But the Bay has paid a heavy price for its material wealth. It is now one-third covered by landfill; the surrounding hills are blanketed by houses and newly rising skyscrapers; its waters are threatened by pollution. Other U.S. shorelines, along which about 75% of the population and nine of the nation's largest cities are located, are suffering the same environmental deterioration. If Dana were to retrace his 19th...
...covered by the laws of libel. Did not Sherlock Holmes admirers helplessly endure odious allegations asserting that Dr. Watson was a woman? Accordingly, anyone fond of Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain, Commodore or Admiral Horatio Hornblower naturally approaches this new biography with suspicion. Will Britain's second greatest seaman, one wonders, be spuriously presented, for example, as a Hermaphrodite Brig? Or Nelson's long-lost younger brother...
...young man who was shot and killed last Thursday night in front of Sanctuary on Mount Auburn St. was a 21-year-old white merchant seaman from Hammond, Ind., named Steven V. Myer, known to Cambridge street people only as "Stevie Wonder...
...APRIL 12, the Army granted Font's request for elective discharge. As a consequence, the court-martial charges against him will be dropped. Nevertheless, the Army is obligated to investigate his charges against Seaman. Koster, Alexander and Ciccolella...