SUNY Maritime College - Eight Bells Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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with the hadly needed reinforce- and Supplies. lnstead of heing greeted eful populace they were surprised grat ' . O themselves the recipients of curses heaved roclcs It seems they had find In . ill this on the Sahhath and in doing ll olated an orthodox l'lehrew com- dvi a which prohihited anyone from more than three thousand some feet on such occasions. France, Spain, Bermuda . . Thanlcs to Artie Sullivan's appendix we lmarrel-tailed into Villafranche, arriving un- ceremoniously in the dead of night at which time he was hastily deposited in a hospital near Nice. Next morning we got our first good loolc at our new surroundings. The Riviera was the faloled France of which l've always heard and always dreamt. It is lilce Bermuda without mutton, and with women worthy of the name. Armed with a lat, new paycheclc and wondrously free from compulsory tours we found our time our own. Accordingly We set forth to revel in the 'Playhoy's Paradise, and revel we did, from .luan les Pins to Nice to Villa- lfaflilfe 'EO Monte Carlo, where you can't lam ei you are in uniform. ln Juan les EPS was a casino and Sidney Bechetg in h1Cf2ll1e'l'lotel,Ruhl, O'Connors, the lVlan- IIZUHE, Roclc Beach, and .laclcieg Villa- Mgfteegllrllvler If quaintly provincial, and If 1 hfdoifff 50n,H1elab0rag?n' I Id ver a arn, wou ifmgorn Then l would disgrace the man iv: Clenlgly to. hecome a remittance proachto infill f F Riviera. The closest ap- bmon was ryxeallilatilon of that ignohle am-- Iieutenant Who? 6 t rough an ex-Infantry owns most of GWB met and whose family Waudngthm h 60rgIa, it seems. While 1944116 desi dSputhern France in August, Mum to- Aff livvould he a nice place to turned for a if eing discharged, he re- did get amu Sort vacation and just never And once Hhfo getting home to Georgia. tered - - eac month his mail hox is clut- ra - Wh H filthy ch 1. f if .1 - mllyl when ec ' rom is otrnig lyayloahock hwe met him he was on his Ing been Ca Z OP to pawn his camera, hav- tllen shouldug t Sllort at the moment. This testify somewhat to what the Rivie ia :fan dcii to someone, such as I, pos- sesse . 0 Wea moral flhre and a notahle laf:lc of character. Gay, leisurely and with E sa Maxwell absent, free of ostentation and undue syharitism, we had ing nothing in particular. However, should the French ever get around to pouring some sand on their heaches l would he grateful no end, as l hruise very easily. One event of minor note was the dis- fovefy by Jeffy R00I1ey and me of the UCOH- tinental Boilermalcer -'creme de menfhe with a girl and orange chaser. It is colorful and friendly. Lilce most great discoveries it Occurred quite by accident, thanlcs to a wait- er, who, alas, must always remain anony- mous, and who precipitated this grand reve- lation hy confusing our order. lVlayhe he didn't lilce usl Barcelona was the last European port of call and is generally considered the hest of the cruise. Unfortunately, l didn't get around too much as my luclc ran out and l finally came down with stomach troulole. We had had a lot of trouhle with that dur- ing the cruise. ln any event, Barcelona is memoralole for several things. Une, there were more cops per capita than any place we'd hit. There were city cops, national cops, cops to watch the cops, and the secret service who paraded around in uniformed splend0r, and were ahout as inconspicuous as a stye in the eye. Each was allotted specific naughlies they alone were concerned with, they and I10 one else, it seems, heing' legally Pefmilled to throw you in clinlc for Very interesting, and l could see where you funn jurisdictional a good time do- infractions thereof. might have some very Y h' prohlems arising. They all have one t mg ll ll hate the secret in common, l10WCVeff t CY a t o e, who are reputed to he too mean lilce even themselveS. polic -ri-:E PAusE THAT Psfnirizs

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saw some desert and orange QFOVCS' and be' Came acquainted with the two classifications of farms in operation-fthe coopefative' and the .quasi free enterprise type. Last, there were ruins. Much and manY ruins Which' I having been in italy, were beginning to Pau on me. In the heat, one pile of rocks was coming to look very much like anY Other' However, the walled city of Acre proved in- teresting and colorful. We were eSC0Tted through the Arab quarter two by two with armed guards 'fore and aft. There we saw the aged and infirm solemnly smoking their water pipes, while the younger fry scrounged for edible things in the dust. All the younger men were mysteriously away. I didn't see one Arabian beauty worthy of clapping into a harem. Several duty sections managed to pull an overnight in Jerusalem. The city was, and is still, contested, with the result that the New City is in the hands of the Israelis while the Old, in which is found most of religious significance, is retained by the Arabian legionnaires: A tour to Tel Aviv and Jaffa produced an interesting and somewhat amusing reve- lation, not without tragic undertones, how- ever. Tel Aviv is to Jaffa what Minneapolis is to St. Paul, the relations being just as uncordial, due to the fact that the former is inhabited by Israelis, the latter by Arabs. When the war started, the citizenry of each dutifully set forth to slaughter the other. All this was done in an area of about five square blocks, the result being a neatly parceied and completely devastated battlefield be- tween two entirely unscarred cities. Archi- fecturally speaking, Tel Aviv is the most modern city Tve ever seen, having been founded in T910 and grown too fast to per- mit the. establishment of anything even Slightly archaic. Sort of a Flatbush gone mad. TAKE HER DOWN! Wie. H 'SPEGSHUN-Aklggn Speaking seriously, due credit should be paid the Israelis for their gallant efforts to squeeze the blood from the stone that is their homeland in'the face of such formidable op- position. They labor like bloody mountains to bring forth the minutest mice, but never- theless face the future with determination and confidence. Though conversation is made somewhat tedious and wearing by their unbridled chauvinism, unfortunately conditions are still far too grim to permit them the luxury of tempering it with humor. By virtue of an intense interest in the States, we are all fully aware of the economic diffi- culties encountered. The sociological prob- lems of this cosmopolitan state-fone can en- counter Australian or Laplander with equal ease'-are perhaps best illustrated by a tale told me by an American emigrant whom we'd met on the beach of a little colony to which we'd gone to swim. in the States he had lived in Queens and had been a wall- paperer in the winter, a lifeguard during the summer. During the war, he had worked in the infantry. Caught at a moment with noth- ing to do, he had decided to visit israel, arriving just as the war with the neighboring Arab states Hared. Joining the army he soon found 'himself in command of an infanl'l'Y platoon, most of whose members were WOIH- en, trying to raise the siege of a certain he- leaguered desertvillage. The villagers were in bad straits, having been besieged a long time, and were 'reduced to the Point Where the last of the household pets had been popped into the pot and anyone with BUY meat on their bones was getting to look Ve? goood. The fighting was protracted and-dl ' ficult. However, the platoon mafleged to break through' the Arab lines, Sllwivedha gauntlet of fire, and triumphanili' enteredt e 1 . l A File sm fu Lflnm J ww q. ' t most .TWH ith Pill, ffl ,nhl ll I ..' Thani imfl.iaile1 mfmoniou llf W3 in mince. gjoi lool B l llc R1 lil lie a li lile Bei um wort it new p rm fompu 13 mm. A :tie 'fla' li0Ii1 ill title lo I il yi i QWBSEI tifallelit 'Q' Ro stall,

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Inasmuch as the POPUIGCF gifs abort somewhat gaunt and ragged In t C panllsy an muchacho with amhition natura Y Y hecome a copper. That or a Priest, as the Church is hig husiness in Spain- The second attraction was the currencY hlaclc marlcet sponsored by the government' A tourist rate they called it, hut a rose hy any other name is still the same: wher6HS the peseta was going twenty-nine to the buck officially we were drawing thirty-nine, a het- ter exchange than that offered hy the small hlaclc marlcet that so perilously existed. ,ln addition, Barcelona was the only place we Ve heen where the Yanlcee dollar was poison. or so was my personal experience. A trades- man or a harlceep wouldn't have heen caught dead with one, and it was impossihle to get them to malce any changes. Third were the hullfights most of us got to see, thus satisfying morhid curiosities and satiating hlood lusts. I lcnow very little ahout hullfighting other than what I've read in Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. It seems there are good hulls who stand and fight and are therefore predictahle, and then the had hulls who fight, scurry away, and turn to fight some more. The latter are dif- ficult to handle as the matador must close on them. We saw had hulls, one of whom hung a novarillo up on his horns. He was horne away hy his seconds, hleeding profusely. There was also a lady hullfightress who did the joh from horsehaclc. Her name was Con- chita Citron and recently I read that she had married a well monied Spaniard and suhse- quently retired. After finally having heen witness to one of these hrawls, I am afraid l cannot agree with those who denounce it and pity the hull. In the first place it is not a sport, hut in reality closely approximates an art whose accompanying pageantry stems from tradition, and an art requiring great personal courage. Under no circumstances would I relish the idea of half a ton of poten- tial hamhurger hearing down upon this one, inasmuch- as I find I am easily suhject to fracture and ahrasion. Secondly, it has its so- ciological virtues as it lceeps those concerned out of the pool rooms and in the fresh air fighting and raising hulls, provides enter- tziilinment for the masses who when unamused s ow a penchant for revolution, and, if all 8008 well. provides free meat for the poor, A.8'I'Cy, somher city physically, though not Without apparent dignity, Barcelona wants to Al JAIMITA Y ALBERTO awolce late at night to display all the Latin gaiety traditionally associated with the Span- iards. Unfortunately, most of this occurred when we were safely home ahed. It wasn't until we'd hit Bilhao the following year that we hecame fully fam-iliar with it. However, Rooney and I savored it hrieliy one evening, and it was then that I found that Jerry really does worry ahout money. Franco must have passed the word to his hoys to roll out the velvet carpet, for we were cordially received and well treated. This despite the fact that los Americanos are not particularly well liked, hut then the Catalonians aren't reputedly free with their affections. ln any event, we went away Well dined, wined, partied and fiestaed. 0116 .thing that has always struclc me as heing rather peculiar is that hoth visits to Spain were to portions noted for their anti-Franco sentiment, and that the visits were free Ol unpleasant incident despite the riots and civil commotion that one could read ahoul prior to our arrival and after our departure' And, of course, after we left, something nice always happened to Franco: the first time he was the recipient of many very Breen and very crisp dollar hills in the form of a IOQU- The second time, Admiral Sherman Hew In to discuss ways and means of keeping Span' ish real estate out of the clutches of un' friendly aliens. 4ll 'llc ereeiee 'if HI. Ie is- .ll .Mme dj at the ilu lm! le file PTM We Chilli -aue a. Wllf -up Ween jiri wiele ale rail al le Hee wi -gep 1er lam L.. .rteassmar ifhlilililg Se George . .fe louses, E el to aeeem lifes wluo lwinler. l iflasewill tere. Evee letel lor 51