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...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...
...addition, the PT requirement loads facilities with people who do not wish to participate at the expense of those who do--a trivial point unless one believes that the function of the athletic department is to serve the students rather than enforce discipline. A Faculty which contributes several million a year to support athletics may have its reservations about forcing the commodity on those who do not want...
...PT requirement is an aggravation not because it demands exercise but because it requires adherence to a group of rules which are inconvenient and annoying. It represents the same kind of paternalism as compulsory chapel and censorship, and the fruit of that singular reasoning which believes that everything right about the College is the result and justification of the things that are wrong...
...only remotely plausible arguments for PT are that it provides a social milieu for those who do not have the comradeship of prep school associations and that it may provide a compulsory break in study for those who drive themselves to overwork. It certainly seems a curious sort of year-long social mixer, and an equally curious way of protecting people from themselves. Perhaps there is something to this kind of defense, but even if proven, it would only have begun to justify the requirement. As it is, PT is nasty, brutish, and nowhere near short enough...