Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radio Hanoi reported that a camp holding American prisoners was struck. The State Department apologized to Poland for the reported sinking of the freighter Josef Conrad and the killing of three seamen. One Soviet and one Chinese vessel were also said to have been damaged, along with some foreign embassies. "The way things are going," said one disillusioned State Department official, "we'll hit the cathedral in Hanoi on Christmas Eve." At week's end, however, the White House indicated that there would be at least a one-day bombing halt over Christmas...
...that attempt, the Navy has found itself buffeted by a series of racial outbreaks. In early October, the decks of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, which was en route to Viet Nam, became the stage for a wild slugfest in which unhappy blacks vented their spleen on white seamen. Three of the 46 who were injured (40 white, six black) had to be evacuated by helicopter. A few days later a similar scene was played out on the oiler Hassayampa in Subic Bay in the Philippines; four whites were injured and eleven blacks were put off the ship in order...
Sakowitz men have been selling in Texas since 1900, when Robert's grandfather and great uncle opened a clothing store for seamen in Galveston. Robert's father Bernard, now 65, is president of the company, but he has been giving more and more authority to Robert, the executive vice president. After graduating cum laude from Harvard and working at Macy's in Manhattan and Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Robert started minding the family store in 1962. At his urging, the business has expanded fast, while remaining one of the few large family retailers that have not sold...
Drinking during duty hours has long been outlawed in the armed forces; the daily grog ration, which persisted in the British navy until 1970, was abolished for U.S. seamen in the 19th century. But off-duty boozing is another matter. Waterfront bars stand ready to quench the thirsts of a long, dry cruise, while service clubs, which dispense top-quality liquor at bargain prices, encourage the heavy drinking that is almost endemic on military bases. The Pentagon estimates that there are between 50,000 and 115,000 alcoholics among the 2.4 million men in the armed forces, and alcoholism...
Since the days of the three-masters, merchant seamen the world over have regarded New York harbor as by far the U.S.'s premier port of call. Now the tide is changing. Chronic labor strife, rampant pilferage and the rising cost of doing business are forcing many shippers to steer around the Port of New York, which is an 833-mile labyrinth of piers stretching from northern New Jersey to western Long Island. Less than 13% of the nation's ocean-borne foreign trade passes through the port, a drop of more than 50% in the past three...