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...feels too much like the inside of a man o' war to put a soldier at his ease. So many sailors got their experience there that even the instructors talk like old tars. We have been told to line up against the bulkhead, go up to the next deck, and see the chief. Yes, they even call them "heads" there...
...nippy in downtown Nelson that afternoon; nevertheless twelve elderly men & women stripped to the buff, knelt and howled. Passers-by knew that the sensitive Doukhobors had been offended again, were resorting to their favorite passive protest.* Among the onlookers stalked a bearded man, wearing 21 oranges in a double-deck crown held together by a net and three dingy white streamers which trailed along behind. The Czar of Heaven (Louis Popoff to the police) did not disrobe then, but he did insist on accompanying the six men and six women to jail. The oranges fell off in the excitement...
Last week more than 2,300 London bus drivers struck without warning, stayed out for seven days. Until the strikers went back to work, the Army took over. Soldiers from Africa and the Middle East drove the big double-deck busses, supplemented by Army trucks. The result: hilarious confusion on the 16 routes affected...
...Stars and Bars still fluttered on the flight deck...
...Under air attack: "Lie flat on the deck pressed hard against a ledge. . . . Standing with your head against something solid is the next best...