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As the pilot of India's Ship of State, Viceroy Baron Irwin went in a single day last week from Full Speed Ahead to Full Speed Astern.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here."

From Time Magazine Archive

Photo: Onne Van der Wal Towing Astern Illustrations: Marc ParkerHang out offshore often enough and you may have to tow a vessel in distress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Full Speed Astern Without the American passion for winning, the U.S. would clearly be a far less dynamic place.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astern of us the island coastline faded, and no land showed anywhere, but only sea and heaven, when Zeus Krom'on piled a thunderhead above the ship, while gloom spread on the ocean.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer