Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly an intimate rap session, as nearly 600 seamen, submariners and officers jammed a base theater at Pearl Harbor last week. But the pert WAVE spoke up boldly on behalf of two of her service friends with an unusual problem: "She works a day shift while her husband is on the night shift. Can't something be done?" The officer directed her to leave their names, and since that officer was none other than Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations and the U.S. Navy's uniformed boss, the pair will soon be on more compatible assignments...
...sloop-and perhaps even faster in light airs. What Aussie Skipper Jim Hardy could not prove was his crew's superiority over Intrepid's Bill Picker and his polished young sailors. Time after time, Gretel II grasped for the advantage, only to be frustrated by the seamen aboard Intrepid. The fifth race was more of the same. Gretel II jumped off to an early lead, footing smartly in the soft, fluky winds. In a series of aggressive tacks, Picker overhauled the Aussies and rounded the first mark with Intrepid 44 sec. ahead. It was a lead he never...
...Soviet Seamen. Europe and Africa were bracing last week for the arrival from Asia Minor of Vibrio cholerae, a comma-shaped bacillus that is the cause of the first serious outbreak of cholera in several years. So far, more than 3,000 cases, including at least 100 resulting in death, have been reported in a dozen countries along an arc that stretches from Dubai on the Persian Gulf to Accra on the west coast of Africa...
Britain's new economy is also threatened by an explosive rise in wages. Ford recently granted its workers an immediate 18% wage raise; Kodak granted 15% and merchant seamen have been offered 20%. Such increases, if not accompanied by commensurate gains in productivity, will soon dull the competitive edge that Britain achieved over other exporting nations when it devalued the pound...
...merchant seamen did not have to be urged twice. In the Eagle's hold were 4,525 tons of explosives, a mixed load of 500-lb. and 750-lb. preassembled napalm bombs consigned to U.S. Air Force units in Thailand. Secured on deck were 50 tons of live detonators. While the men, some in their skivvies, were tearing at the lifeboat covers and at work on the davits, Second Mate Robert Stevenson called to the bridge: "Is this for real?" Third Mate Herbert Gunn shouted down: "Cast off and stand clear. There's a live bomb aboard...