Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East he had been under machine-gun and mortar fire in Lebanon and Morocco. He had never been shot, however, until last week when he was mugged on Capitol Hill in Washington. He is now recovering from a stomach wound and pondering the ironies of chance. Barrett Seaman, moving from Chicago to Bonn, is aghast at the German bureaucracy. "The number of official forms to be filled out -in order to move in, get a phone, or do anything beyond buying a beer-is staggering." In London the directory of civil servants is classified information under the Official Secrets...
...lumberjack look (TIME, Nov. 29). Willy, or more probably nilly, the doyens of fashion were making warm, practical sense. In this winter of American discomfort, it is not only chic-for men as well as women-but positively de rigueur to be decked out like an able-bodied seaman on the Murmansk...
Freddie Laker-he never uses his full first name Frederick-was a poor kid who got rich by seeing new possibilities in air transport. The son of a merchant seaman who deserted the family when Laker was six, he has been hooked on flying machines ever since as a kid he saw both the Hindenburg airship and a Handley Page biplane skimming the sky over Canterbury Cathedral. He quit school at 16 and began his aviation career by sweeping floors and making tea at a flying-boat factory. He eventually went on to become both an R.A.F. pilot...
...novel's heft and subject suggest a routine costume epic. But stripped of its ornaments, Voyage is in fact a rather somber study of the human condition. The story's most fully drawn seaman, a seething 50-year-old giant named Harwar, plans to dynamite Car after it reaches the States. In the book's terms, the scheme seems justifiable. Harwar is strong, and though he is an alcoholic, he has been off the sauce for seven months. He stays sober for nearly two weeks more in San Francisco as he waits to wreck the vessel...
...last week with the sound of 900-h.p. engines being pushed to their limit and bustled with mechanized frenzy, profanity and machismo as next Sunday's 500-mile race drew nearer. The Alley is the ultimate in that American male sanctuary, the local garage. TIME's Barrett Seaman reports how a woman was faring there last week...