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After that trip, I've sailed on deck, with what is usually considered a better class of people. It might be profitable to explain ship (union) politics, or the sickness of the shipping industry, or what one actually does on a watch. (For the last item, as an ordinary seaman: 4 hours lookout, 2 hours standby and general labor, and perhaps 2 hours wheel-watch). But I'm seeking what is specific to the summertime sailor's experience; of which an infuriating helpless sympathy is a large part. They condemn you and your innocence, and still worship your education; Beretta...
Crying Colonialism. Less obvious but more ominous is the growing isolation of President Abeid Karume. A moder ate, ineffectual leftist, the former merchant seaman proved no match for the wily, anti-Western machinations of Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," and Moscow-trained Vice President Kassim Hanga. Solidly supported by a cadre of younger Marxists, Babu and Hanga now control half of the Revolutionary Council, can usually work their will and twist any issue simply by crying "colonialism." They were able to replace Treasury Secretary Herbert Hawker, a Briton, with an East German Communist "adviser...
Author Richard Jessup, a former merchant seaman from Savannah who once worked as a dealer in a gambling joint in Harlem, tells a cool, good story. His language is as spare as the language of the men he is writing about, but his work has the topography a novel needs...
...fishermen are not the only ones whose tempers have been rubbed as raw as a seaman's salt-sanded hands...
...interview, for there had never been such a title. But at the magazine of the trade, the Refuse Removal Journal, the remark brought action: Fahey was duly informed that the magazine would begin an annual awarding of the honor by naming him the first recipient. The ex-seaman first class was thrilled. "I'm no writer," said he. "Some people call me an author or a writer, but that's only a name. Garbage Man of the Year is one title that really fits...