Word: pt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter, 22 next week, scored even higher on Broadway when he opened this season in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole. The play was forgettable, but Peter-as a bright, engaging, neurotic soldier-was not. Warner Bros, is testing him for the part of John F. Kennedy in PT 109, and Producer Ross Hunter has signed him to a seven year contract. Their father is 56 and still busier than either of his offspring. Three more Henry Fonda films will soon be released (Advise and Consent, The Longest Day, How the West Was Won), and next week he opens on Broadway...
...Such is not, after all, what they came here for. In any case, the performers' backgrounds and talents vary so greatly that uniform standards of achievement are out of the question; conversely, judging a student merely on time spent would make a good mark as meaningless as one in PT...
...Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (4) 10. PT 109, Donovan...
...Multimillionaire Joe who negotiated the movie contract for Robert Donovan's book on Kennedy's wartime days, PT 109. It came to a tidy $150,000-some $2,500 for each of the old PT crew members or their widows and $120,000 for Donovan...
...biggest ship in the world, surpasses the Queen Elizabeth by 8,000 tons and costs an estimated $500 million. From stem to stern, the Enterprise measures 1,040 ft.-roughly the height of the 102-story Empire State Building. Yet the hefty Enterprise handles like a PT boat. In its first trials last month, it surged through the Atlantic at speeds of more than 35 knots, accelerated from a standstill to top speed so rapidly that accompanying destroyers were left wallowing far behind. Its eight nuclear reactors will drive the carrier more than 140,000 miles at full power, more...