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...U.S.O.-style performance. Two of the dancers, Carole St. James and Carol Hungerford, were introduced to Andrew afterward. "He told us to call him 'H' [for Highness]," says St. James. "I was singing You Made Me Love You, and he sang the second verse." The shipboard romance adjourned at 3 a.m., when H had to go on duty. "He said he wants to see us again when he gets back to London," says St. James. "He's certainly a flirt, and it's quite clear he likes being with the ladies...
...again-though some good still shots eventually began to surface. Says CBS Evening News Executive Producer Van Gordon Sauter: "Viewers have become accustomed to not just instant but instantaneous coverage. And they, like our TV news people, are frustrated because it's just not available." Occasionally the British shipboard correspondents were heard on TV describing some action like the bombing of the Port Stanley airfield, but the only illustration the networks could provide was a photo of the man who was speaking. It was almost as if the world were back in 1932, when people at home sat around...
Another attraction that has helped to bring the cruise business back from near extinction: shipboard casino gambling...
Bitterness over low pay was stressed in a cable sent to his superiors in early May by Captain R.R. Owens, skipper of the Texas, which came home last week with the Nimitz. Said Owens: "While we have been able to cheerfully handle the arduous shipboard conditions, we rebel against our inability to provide our families back home with sufficient funds to provide for their wellbeing. It is very hard for a commanding officer to recommend to his men that they apply for food stamps or other welfare and at the same time ask them to be ready to fight...
Some 250 students apply annually for the 144 berths on Westward. SEA's usual admission requirements: a B average, capacity for independent study, tolerance for the rigors of shipboard life. Before shipping out, they spend six weeks of Sea Semester at Woods Hole studying marine science (ocean life, geology, currents) and nautical science (piloting, navigation, ship design). In a specially salty course called Man and the Sea, readings range from the romance of the Odyssey (Why can't Ulysses work that boat back to Ithaca?) to such down-to-sea realism as Food from the Sea: The Economics...