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Significant changes in the PT program, some of them the result of misunderstandings concerning the requirements for freshmen employed in term time jobs, are under consideration for next year, Dean von Stade said yesterday...
Under a policy approved by the Administrative Board in March, 1958, any freshman who worked more than nine hours per week was automatically eligible for twelve extra PT outs during the year. The plan was attacked by Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, who opposed a blanket regulation because it provided as easy excuse for "kids who just don't like to exercise" to skip PT...
...total executions to 587, will not stamp out the movement. The top leadership operates in Miami, headquarters of the Frente, which hopes to become a sort of supreme command for the harassment of Castro. The Frente is making impressive preparations: guerrilla training camps in Florida and Guatemala, arms-carrying PT boats that average a trip a week to Cuba, an air group of some 80 flyers who reportedly fly out of the mystery field at Retalhuleu in Guatemala and the inactive U.S. Marine Corps Opa-Locka airbase in Florida...
...dropped out of Connecticut's Canterbury School with acute appendicitis. Recurring jaundice later forced his withdrawal from the London School of Economics and Princeton. Playing junior-varsity football at Harvard, he injured his spine, and in the Pacific, during World War II, he picked up malaria. When his PT boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagri, Kennedy was flung violently to the deck, and his old back injury was aggravated, causing spinal muscle spasms and sciatica...
...they were the same age as the Senator. In Tokyo offices, "I'm 43, too" became the boast of junior executives on the rise. Suddenly in the limelight was onetime Imperial Navy Lieut. Commander Kohei Hanami, who broke into print rejoicing that when his destroyer sliced a U.S. PT boat in two in 1943, Lieut, (j.g.) Jack Kennedy had providentially survived...