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"We operate on a first name basis. My first name is Captain."
"[after reading the name of the person who authorized the mission] All right sir, I'm impressed. Not enlightened, but impressed."
"One of my men is dead! Three of them are badly hurt and my ship damn near wiped out. Now you take another look at those orders. I'm in command of this submarine and I am not sticking another torpedo up that spout or taking another chance making another damned move until I know exactly what we're doing and why!"
"To Commander Ferraday: This is a nuclear submarine. None of us have been aboard any kind of sub before. Commander Ferraday: Rest easy! I have!"
"The Russians put our camera made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists into their satellite made by their German scientists."
"They say - a bull in the ring dies a much better death, than a steer in a slaughterhouse. A bull has a chance."
"Commander Ferraday, this is not the time or place to play with words. You have undoubtedly discovered by now that the capsule will explode if opened. I believe your expression is: booby trap."
"It's a race for the secret ... or TOTAL DESTRUCTION!"
""Ice Station Zebra"... Remember The Name—Your Life May Depend On It!"
"An American nuclear sub.. a sky full of Russian paratroopers—and a race for the secret of Ice Station Zebra!"
"Rock Hudson - Commander James Ferraday, USN"
"Ernest Borgnine - Boris Vaslov"
"Patrick McGoohan - David Jones of MI6"
"Jim Brown - Captain Leslie Anders, USMC"
"Tony Bill - 1st Lieutenant Russell Walker, USMC"
"Lloyd Nolan - Admiral Garvey, USN"
"Alf Kjellin - Colonel Ostrovsky, the Soviet commander"
"Gerald S. O'Loughlin - Lieutenant Commander Bob Raeburn, USN"
"Ted Hartley - Lieutenant Jonathan Hansen, USN"
"Michael Mikler - Lt Courtney Cartwright, USN (navigator)"
"Ron Masak - radioman Paul Zabrinczski, USN"
"Murray Rose - torpedo-man officer Lt George Mills, USN"
"Jed Allan - Peter Costigan USN"
"Lloyd Haynes - Webson"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.