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...with 20 years of Navy service. In October 1966, in a Mekong River backwater, Williams led two patrol boats into a mass of sampans and junks loaded with Viet Cong troopers. Outnumbered and outgunned, the patrol sank 28 sampans, damaged 25 more and captured six enemy vessels. >Richard A. Pittman, 22, is a civilian now. Back in July 1966, as a Marine lance corporal, he traded his rifle for a machine gun and rushed forward to help buddies in trouble near the Demilitarized Zone. Pittman singlehanded faced an assault by more than 30 North Vietnamese. His ammunition gone, he grabbed...
...surfboards were sold in 1960, 4,000 have been snapped up this year, with the season just under way. Over 300 surfers were counted in the water recently at Gilgo Beach on Long Island's South Shore, and 900 more were catching their breath on the sand. George Pittman, a surfboard dealer in Ocean City, Md., reports happily: "The fanny-dippers [ordinary bathers] are in the big majority now, but in the future the situation may be reversed...
...Mississippi. In Hattiesburg, Lawyer Paul Grady, 41, who lost a runoff election for mayor as a Democrat in 1961, decided he'd rather switch before fighting again, did much better as a Republican. Though Hattiesburg is the Governor's home town, Grady defeated Democratic Incumbent Claude Pittman Jr. 2,429 to 1,827. In Columbus, another Democrat-turned-Republican, City Councilman Robert D. Harmond, 54, beat Democratic Mayor William Propst...
...They would rather think of other things," said Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense Steuart L. Pittman at the time. But eight weeks of hearings and 108 witnesses changed all that. Again and again, Defense Department and civil defense officials emphasized the idea that "reasonable protection" from fallout could save 25 million to 65 million Americans in a nuclear assault. The shelter program, said Pittman, "is no panacea. It brings no security, only a better chance to survive." And, he added, "All objective and detailed studies of the impact of nuclear war conclude that there will be a significant...
...Under Pittman, who has been on the job for less than two months, civil defense leaders last week were readying a program of surveying, marking and stocking every existing public building in the nation that could serve as a shelter. Merely marking and identifying these sites, said Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, "could, without additional effort, save at least 10 to 15 million lives." Next month the first teams of trained experts will begin the eight-month survey...