Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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From The Time we had our TirsT hisTory lesson baclc in grammar school, we'd heard and read abouT The glory oT The Golden Age of Greece. IT had always seemed lilce one oT Those greaT and marvelous dream worlds oT The pasT ThaT we would never be able To see: and yeT, There iT was, spread ouT beTore us iusT as our hisTory boolcs had described iT. In The cenTer of The Town The Acropolis, crowned by The beauTy oT The ancienT sculpTors' arT-The ParThenon, The Propylaea, ErecTheum, and The Temple oT AThenae. AT The greaT hill's TooT, The beginning oT The TheaTer as The world knows iT Today-The TheaTer oT Dionysius: and spreading ouT beneaTh iT, To The sea in The souTh and The mounTains in The norTh, The valley oT AThens, seTTled by The ancesTors oT Today's inhabiTanTs Tour Thousand years beTore The birTh of ChrisT. The years ThaT have passed, wars ThaT have been ToughT, and The progress oT civilizaTion have changed all These greaT worlcs oT ancienT men: The rooTs have Tallen in, The sTeps are worn hollow, The sTaTues are brolcen and crum- bling, buT The beauTy and The glory sTill remain as symbols oT a once greaT and glorious era in The hisTory oT man. The ParThenon TOP: From inside ...The ParThenon ABOVE: The Odeum ll TTA , Th tim.. - D Q Q ,M Em 3. M. ' 'fr ws, fi ,A A -A-agqbe ' .,,,, M , K , vwaw, ng , ., 1 . 'Mx iw . W, 1 Q , ,, ,Q '-.Ninn 51'-ov .. Q., ,, V , -'f- - - , -, 0 A, , . , , i A T' ' -f ' ' 'W' T V-W M, M fr ' ' ' .- ' Q., v. -L - , f-- 1 , , + , s - 5 ,e . g Q fu: KN V N, 1 n 5 V g' ,- ' Km, r s - 1. ,. x -, 4 Mx sv , t Y an V X N-' Q , V4 ' H14 L - -D t ' , A Akw 'Wg-Em M A-W A . 4- K 4 ,Ny ,J .X ' Q 5 X .7 V . Q A X Q 'QQ-,Q - -. , A L ,ygy A X gy V M T T 1 0 T T iq . if T 54. . s,l ir' ,W fm X wk F-..-14l..m, Vx K xr X TWT'

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Mm Twice we had Traversed The STraiTs of Messina, buT This Time we came To sTay a while-To make fasT once again To ThaT familiar quay in The cenfer of Town. The Fiesfa was noT yeT in full swing, buT There was plenTy To do. Every day aT noon we sTood before The famous Tower clock of Mes- sina: heard The lion roar and The cocks crow, saw deafh swing his scyfhe, and wafched The church disappear behind The hill, To reappear again aT midnighf. We held our sec- ond round of ship-sponsored beach and beer parfies in Messina . . . This Time The wafer was handier as many of our non-swimming shipmafes found ouT raTher rudely- And The clock sTruck Twelve . . 'xi :S 4, .X X ' 5 i Lm11g:a,- I Qs-, S T T 1 A ' l 22. , i T T l ,i'. ire ... Where To, Joe? and damply. Early Sunday morning we were awakened by a sound fainfly reminiscenf of The roar of low flying planes during an Adex. We weren'T being aTTacked: we jusT had grandsTand seafs for The local moforcycle races, which ran righT by The ship. The powerful bikes flashing pasT were a conTrasT To The endless sTream of liTTle donkey carTs pass- ing up and down The sTreeT. These, wiTh Their brighT colors and gay harnesses, swinging as The small animals plodded Trielessly on Their way, seemed more Truly To belong To The Sicily of song and sTory, The colorful, gay Sicily we besT remember. A cool, refreshing dunking Free beer-and happy faces i l i l l l i l l 4l