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...learning and his teaching . . . Without doubt, the greatest achievement arising out of [his] interest is his current project, a monumental history of United States naval operations, World War II ... [We] express the wish that he continue to enjoy . . . 'long stretches of pure delight such as only seamen can know, the moments of high, proud exaltation that only a discoverer can experience...
...Romans were reluctant seamen; whenever they could, they traveled by land over their famed roads. Their empire, nevertheless, was held together by seaborne commercial and naval power. Their predecessors-the Greeks. Phoenicians and Cretans-went down to the sea by preference. For thousands of years their galleys and potbellied cargo ships plied the Mediterranean, generally sticking close to the shore, where they often sank in shallow water. The wrecks lie there still, while bright fish swim around their leaden anchors and mollusks drill holes in marble columns packed into their holds...
...Ambassador's Apologies. Two hours later a fine ash began to fall on the Fortunate Dragon and her crew. It descended for several hours, and when the seamen bathed, they found that it was hard to scrub off. Very soon the men experienced loss of appetite, depression and other first symptoms of radiation...
...bureaucracy which might startle even a Detroit motormaker. The school system owns and operates 816 schools (which, with warehouses, shops, and twelve office buildings, have a total replacement value of $2 billion), a 20-acre farm and a Liberty ship (on which selected high-school students are trained as seamen, marine engineers and stewards...
Some of the cargo ships have been engaged in traffic with Red China, and some of the tankers, using underpaid foreign crewmen, have underbid U.S.-owned tankers enough to knock U.S. seamen out of jobs. Admiral Burger expects to seize about 75 ships before he is done and, if the courts uphold him, sell them over again...