Word: pt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Offshore powerboat racing is no delicate art like trying to steer a skittery hydroplane around the smooth surface of a protected lake. It is simple, straightforward stuff: slamming headlong through the open ocean in anything from a souped-up outboard to a PT boat-until your ribs rattle and your face is white with salt. It is madness, of course. But as Ohio Millionaire Merrick Lewis, 41, explained on the eve of last week's Sam Griffith Memorial Race from Miami to Bimini and back: "Once in a while, you have to force yourself into doing something that petrifies...
...look across the table, you'll see that we're not so old." Here, in a less weighty moment, is Kennedy at his children's bedtime, inventing stories about "Caroline hunting with the Orange County hounds and winning the Grand National and John in his PT boat sinking a Japanese destroyer...
...Senator then cited the attack on U.S. ships in the Tonkin Gulf by three or four North Vietnamese PT boats ("like a 14-year-old boy with a bean shooter attacking Cassius Clay") that spurred U.S. escalation...
Died. Rear Admiral Allen Phillip Calvert, 64, World War II commander of the PT-boat flotilla in which President Kennedy skippered the PT 109, for which he got the Distinguished Service Medal, later Deputy Chief of General MacArthur's planning staff; of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif...
...Castro's Minister of Interior, suggested as much in a brief radio speech last week. "We must fight," he told Cubans, "against internal espionage, sabotage, acts of terrorism and attempted assassinations." A few weeks ago, according to one report, saboteurs put the torch to two Cuban PT boats in Santiago harbor. Another report tells of a Cuban antiaircraft battery that gunned down a Cuban army transport in the belief that Castro was aboard...