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...first minutes of Wednesday, Stephen Mitchell, Adlai Steven son's hand-picked chairman of the Demo cratic National Committee, stood like the boy on the burning deck. The Republi cans had not won, he said; final returns would show a Democratic majority in Ohio and Pennsylvania. But within the hour, the Ohio Democratic state chair man conceded Ike's victory in the state (although Ohio's popular Democrat Frank Lausche was winning the governorship...
Davis said that he was hit by four severe storms; the two worst were off New Zealand. The second storm swept everything off the Miru's deck--including loose lines and the ketch's compass. This storm lasted five days, and several 65-foot waves managed to crash over the mainmast...
Except for one remarkable feature-length documentary, The Fighting Lady, too much of the film coverage of the Navy's war has involved blasting a beach or a kamikaze grazing a carrier's deck. They were, through necessity, limited to action as it looked from our side; because of security regulations, there was much of even that action which they could not show...
...battle between the ship's officers and the shanghaied crew, a hunt for buried treasure in the South Seas, a fight between a shark and Hurricane Smith (John Ireland). Also aboard is an exotic half-Polynesian girl (Yvonne de Carlo) who does a native love dance on the deck of the pirate ship dressed in the sketchiest of sarongs...
...boarding party, more than 30 strong, clambered to the Takshing's deck, her 300 Chinese passengers were seized by panic. One old woman knelt and chanted prayers to the Goddess of Mercy...