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...destroyers by North Vietnamese PT boats and the Senate's subsequent resolution granting President Johnson broad authority to counter aggression in Southeast Asia. The committee was to have decided last week whether to pursue the investigation farther, but in the light of the Pueblo incident, it prudently deferred a vote...
...Stop." Using international signal flags, the PT boat asked Pueblo's nationality. When she identified herself as American, the Korean boat signaled: "Heave to or I will open fire." Pueblo replied: "I am in international waters." She maintained her course at two-thirds speed (8 knots), with the PT boat never very far away. An hour later, three more North Korean vessels came slashing in from the southwest. One was a 30-knot, Soviet-built subchaser, the others 40-knot PT boats. "Follow in my wake," signaled one of the small vessels. "I have a pilot aboard." The Korean...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Cliff Robertson as Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy in PT...
...Democratic side, affable, grey-haired Roy Archibald, 47, defeated Edward Keating, 42, former publisher of the New Left Ramparts magazine, by 15,069 votes to 8,881. Keating, who billed himself as the "real" peace candidate, stood fast for Proposition P. Archibald, a wartime PT-boat skipper who is a West Coast spokesman for the National Education Association and an able former mayor of San Mateo, voiced mild qualms over U.S. tactics in Viet Nam but supported the U.S. commitment...
...than many men who have spent their whole careers in the executive suite. Himself a Stanford business-school graduate (class of 1936), Arbuckle started off with Standard Oil of California first as a personnel officer, later as an organization analyst-with time out for wartime Navy duty as a PT boat squadron commander (for which he won a silver star) and on General Lucius D. Clay's staff in occupied Germany. He later joined a statewide California dairy company, and in 1950 went to W. R. Grace & Co., where he became an executive vice president before moving to Stanford...