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...only one movie (On the Waterfront) and taken no vacations. Years ago some fellow unionists took him to a Lake Huron shore cottage for a holiday; he stayed indoors reading up on economics. When they finally got him out on the lake, the water turned rough and Reuther got seasick...
...three years at sea, Ho Chi Minh read avidly-Tolstoy, Zola, Shakespeare, Marx-and from all accounts had pretty rough sailing. He was seasick. He was almost swept overboard. He was too frail to lift the heavy copper stewpans, and got only ten francs for his first 8,000-mile voyage to France. At Marseille he was offended when prostitutes came on board. "Why don't the French civilize their own people," he asked, "before they pretend to civilize...
...Reds tried to take the island with 15,000 men in junks from Swatow. The Nationalists beat them off and burned their junks. The Communists tried again, with 700 men, the following year, but this force got lost in bad weather, and Chiang's men captured 300 seasick Reds...
...German and Japanese competition is rising. Exports to the vital U.S. market have already dropped as a result of the U.S. downturn. But Butler is cheerful; he likens the British reaction to an old lady on a cruise: "She locks herself up in the cabin and is a little seasick, more out of apprehension than because of rough seas. Then the steward knocks on the door and tells her: 'We are two days out, ma'am, and the weather is fine.' Now, like the old lady, we are walking the deck and feeling good...
Unlike the Bathyscaphe explorer who faces a more insidious danger. For on getting together, the Atlantic and Atlantis, can deliver a stomach torturing roll designed to reduce even the hardiest scientist to a pale, seasick green. In the cramped quarters of the best, the dining table is set on a pivot to allow for a roll that often nears fifty degrees...