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...Stop medical care for 2,500 merchant seamen now in U.S. Public Health Service hospitals. This oldest (1798) medical responsibility taken on by the Government is now unnecessary because many shipping companies have private medical-insurance programs...
...referred the case to the High Court of Justice on the ground that there had been no legal reinterpretation of mutiny since the last century. Last week, after hearing Sir Hartley argue that the Puszczyk was in reality "a small territorial unit or parish of Poland," and that the seamen had only "revolted from what they regarded as the tyranny of a police state," Lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice, ordered the prisoners freed. Happily, the Polish community threw a huge coming-out party for the seven, who had established a legal precedent for the kind of age which the Bounty...
...Assam villages, where "even the small children gathered with their elders ... to chorus Jai to the Red flag"; in Hyderabad, where scarcely a day goes by without a Brahman being assassinated by the "Red revolutionists"; in Calcutta, where the hammer and sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier city of Darjeeling, where Tibetan Communists "squeeze across the border now and then." Soviet propaganda was everywhere, blanketing the bookshops, nudging Hollywood aside in the movie theaters. In one frontier district, Redding reports, the local garrison was marched, by squads, to see the Soviet...
That was in June 1944, at the height of World War II. This week in Chicago, the rusting, bullet-riddled submarine, the U-505, will be hauled to her final snug harbor at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, as a memorial to all the U.S. seamen who lost their lives at sea in World Wars I and II, and as a personal tribute to Rear Admiral Dan Gallery, the lean and leathery wartime skipper of the Guadalcanal...
Yankee Whalers in the South Seas is a lively introduction to a fascinating subject. Yankee Author and LIFE Associate Editor A.B.C. Whipple is an enthusiast who has spent ten years poring over old ships' logs and seamen's journals, listening to the yarns still spun in old whaling towns, and chatting with whaling authorities. What he has tried for and achieved is not a history of whaling but a teaser that may send readers to other books on the subject, perhaps even to that greatly unread but incessantly discussed U.S. classic, Herman Melville's Moby Dick...