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...hell with Autherine!" and "Keep 'Bama white!" Two days later, rioting students hurled stones and eggs at the car in which she was riding to class, pursued the car to the classroom building. With the mob yelling outside, she waited in the building until state policemen arrived to escort her to safety. She shortly went home to Birmingham. And she never returned to Tuscaloosa...
...Communist-infested jungle hideout 175 miles northeast of Saigon. The region was a tangled, menacing battleground, whose name, like Tennyson's Balaclava, derives from its bloody history in South Viet Nam's ugly guerrilla war. As each flight dipped into the tiny landing zone, an escort of twelve rocket-carrying UH 1-B ("Huey") choppers sprayed the scrubby underbrush with rockets and machine-gun fire. Not a single hostile shot was returned as the troops hit the ground and fanned into the jungle...
...government's helicopter airlift campaign, which had been the most effective offensive tactic against the Red guerrillas. Reluctantly the top U.S. military brass, which had long been skeptical that a helicopter could ever be a deadly offensive weapon, threw the newly-arrived Hueys into combat. Their mission: to escort and protect the troop-carrying copters...
...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...
...banana" copters have become increasingly vulnerable as the Viet Cong learn how to use new rapid-fire weapons; in one sortie near the delta village of Apbac last January, they downed five of 14 helicopters, including one of the 24 fast, rocket-firing HU-1B ("Huey") helicopters that now escort most missions. Last week a second company of 24 Hueys arrived at a new base near Vinh Long. "Operations were down in the hundreds a year ago," says General Paul Harkins, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam. "Now they're in the thousands." But normal battlefield statistics...