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...raffish, hairy-chested sea captain on a filthy freighter, appears in the film's funniest sequence: after losing all his money and his cargo of sewing machines ("At least that's what the labels say," explains the mate) in a cutthroat poker game with three lugubrious seamen, he offers 1) his ship, and 2) a monumentally configured and barely clothed native girl that he happens to own, in one last, grand gamble. The other players spurn the ship at first, but accept when the dame is offered as collateral. Etienne's bet: a trapped fly will light...
...Conn., 20,000 guests crowded into the Electric Boat shipyard and a Congressman's lady, Mrs. W. Sterling Cole of Bath, N.Y. cried, "I christen thee Seawolf.* Before she could swing the traditional champagne bottle, the sleek, 3,000-ton sub began sliding down the ways. To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged...
...sullen waters spumed in white fury along the Great Barrier Reef, steely, hidden fingers of coral dug into the bottom of the Endeavour and the hearts of every man aboard. Ordinarily, 18th century seamen panicked fast. Most of them were too superstitious to learn how to swim; they felt it would only prolong the agony of drowning. The only rule of shipwreck and death was to loot the liquor supplies and drink oneself insensible in the short time left to live...
...commission wrote 19 reports on 60 Government agencies that account for more than 95% of expenditures in the executive branch. Task forces made extensive investigations resulting in 362 recommendations. They were often concerned with details, e.g., eliminate free hospital and medical service for all merchant seamen, but the specifics were woven into a broad pattern. The $3,500 saved each month by having a civilian concern clean the General Accounting Office Building in Washington was used to dramatize a recurring theme-private industry should be used to perform services for the Government whenever possible...
...deep-throated blasts from her funnels drowning out the catcalls from striking pickets on the pier, the Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, sailed from Southampton last week with a full crew complement of 1,250. With that, the three-week-old wildcat strike of British seamen collapsed. Two days later the strike's organizers ordered their men back to work, and the strike, which had stranded hundreds of U.S. tourists and clogged British ports with merchandise, was over...