Word: pt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy has killed 665 Viet Cong, destroyed 4,367 buildings, sunk 297 gunrunning sampans, and fired 31,251 rockets. Most important, not a single South Vietnamese outpost within range of his rockets has been overrun during the three months his "little armada" has been in action. "The PT was the boat of World War II," he says...
...closer to 30% . So the Navy went back, and for good measure, Navy and Air Force planes at week's end hit fuel dumps 35 miles north of Hanoi and 43 miles south east of Vinh. En route, Skyhawks and Intruders picked off five North Vietnamese PT boats that were imprudent enough to open fire from their camouflaged moorings as the Navy planes passed over...
Hyperbole, of course, but it reflected the wry eye that J.F.K. characteristically turned on himself and his clan. The Kennedy candor comes through with engaging clarity in the reminiscences of Paul ("Red") Fay, a fellow PT boat commander, close friend and campaign aide, whom Kennedy appointed Under Secretary of the Navy. In his forthcoming book, The Pleasure of His Company (Harper & Row), now being serialized by McCall's, Fay recalls some other revealing Kennedyisms. "When the war is over and you are out there in sunny California," Kennedy told San Franciscan Fay in 1945, "I'll be back...
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...Clasp & Pal. In Wisconsin, the so-called Kennedy candidate is Lieut. Governor Patrick J. Lucey, 48, who as state Democratic chairman was instrumental in Jack Kennedy's victory over Hubert Humphrey in that state's bitter 1960 primary. Lucey, who sports a PT 109 tie clasp, visited the White House often during the New Frontier and in 1963 was recruited by J.F.K.'s brother-in-law Stephen Smith to reorganize Ohio's Democrats. In return, Bobby Kennedy last August topped the bill at a dinner that netted $60,000 for Lucey's current campaign. Since...