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...after caesarean birth, and a girl stillborn in 1956-were reburied beside their father in Arlington National Cemetery. There was no advance announcement; instead, the transfer was moved up by a day when it appeared that newsmen might get wind of it. Patrick's body was accompanied to Quonset, R.I., from the Kennedy burial plot at Brookline, Mass., by Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing and Municipal Judge Francis X. Morrissey, both family friends. The stillborn girl was brought by a Catholic priest from Newport...
...delegation (three U.S. generals, one British and one South Korean) went through the preset motions with North Korea's stony-faced delegates who practice the surly manners of their close ally and big brother, Red China. The two sides walked in from opposite ends of the Quonset hut that serves as conference room, sat down without greeting at the table placed squarely on the demarcation line. North Korea's General Chang Chong Whan launched into a vituperative speech accusing the U.S. of repeatedly violating the armistice and plotting to renew the war. U.S. General George Cloud sighed wearily...
What McNamara will find is a remarkable U.S. military effort, mounted in the few short months since Washington decided last October to hold South Viet Nam at all costs. At Saigon airfield a steady stream of huge Globemasters unloads tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. More than 80 H21 Shawnee helicopters at four airbases are serviced by U.S. ground crews, flown by U.S. pilots-including such colorful types as Lieut. Colonel Archie Clapp, who has lent his name to his squadron, "Archie's Angels." The converted aircraft carrier Core steams regularly upriver to Saigon, carrying...
...hotels of Saigon last week were jammed with officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The once-neglected airfield at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, is now receiving a steady stream of Globemasters that unload tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. A U.S. ground crew of 200 lives in tents near by to service the planes and take care of 24 U.S. fighter-bombers and transports scheduled to be turned over to the South Viet Nam government...
Having propped up Paeng Yong's economy and welfare almost singlehanded, Father Moffett turned to matters of the spirit. He built a Quonset chapel, and church members built 13 other small churches on the three main islands, donating land and labor. Catholic membership rose from 417 to 3,100. (There are 1,000 Protestants, 5,000 Buddhists...