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...build quite a reputation for himself, and even becomes a sort of folk hero. Crowds turn out from all over the state-and, it is eventually implied, from all over the country -to watch his harebrained heroics. The film ends with him jumping over 19 cars on his chopper and promising an assault on the Grand Canyon. His death, he swears, will be "glorious...
...sure, the Vice President, currently in the statesman-like pose of revenue-sharing salesman, has not completely abandoned polemics (see THE PRESS). Dole insists that he is not trying to replace Agnew as what he calls "the No. 1 chopper and gut cutter." Yet in a sense, he is the new Agnew...
...creation of a Gateway National Recreation Area in the vicinity of the harbor. It was a curious meeting of three Republicans who rarely agree with one another on much of anything. But Nixon's political purpose was not to mollify his fellow Republicans. Rather, by making the chopper tour, he deftly took the headlines away from a possible presidential rival, Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had scheduled a congressional hearing on the project for later in the week...
...area in his Huey command helicopter when he did the shooting, taking potshots at Vietnamese peasants on the ground below. He has admitted the killings in private, making a fine distinction between innocent civilians and possible Communists by saying he shot those who "took evasive action" as his chopper whirred overhead...
...South Vietnam, U.S. helicopters broke a ring of Vietcong fire Sunday to resupply a South Vietnamese artillery outpost under siege for 12 days. Most of the helicopters were called back before reaching the base after the North Vietnamese downed one chopper...