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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...
...same time, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets kept up their pounding of targets to the north. Barracks and PT boats, radar stations and ammo dumps caught the brunt of the aerial assault, and the bomb-line boomed ever closer to Hanoi. U.S. planes struck within 45 miles of the North Vietnamese capital, as if to challenge the half-dozen Soviet Ilyushin-28 jet bombers discovered by high-flying U.S reconnaissance planes late last month and at present sitting idly at Phucyen, just northwest of Hanoi. U.S. officials assume that the planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow...
Teddy was neither awed nor swayed. Wearing a navy-blue suit with a PT-boat tie clasp, and leaning on a silver-headed cane, he arose at the front-row desk next to Mansfield's, which he had appropriated for the occasion, and speaking from notes, defended the first major item of legislation he had ever managed on the floor. "It is a settled constitutional doctrine," orated Teddy, by way of rationalizing a universal ban on poll taxes, "that where Congress finds an evil to exist, such as the economic burden in this case, it can apply a remedy...
...bowling bag. As far as he's concerned, the M in A. & M. stands for Emil Mamaliga, 44, an assistant coach for the varsity swimming team, who started Randy lifting weights to build up his rangy frame. "You can't fire a 16-in. shell from a PT boat," Mamaliga insisted. "You have to have a big, heavy ship." By last fall's Olympics in Tokyo, Matson tipped the scales at 260 lbs., astounded everybody by flinging the shot 66 ft. 3¼ in. As it turned out, Randy had to settle for a silver medal when...