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With their maneuverability, the Hueys can slide back and forth just a few feet over the sun-scorched rice fields, sorting out their targets like cowboys cutting steers from a herd. On one recent mission, the desperate Reds tried to lob hand grenades into the open side doors of the low-circling choppers. When two Hueys tried to box in and capture a fleeing Red guerrilla, he suddenly wheeled and headed straight for them, a hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door...
...pick any horse in the corral as a gift, the former Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, selected a Venezuelan champion stallion named Oleaje. Beamed Rocky: "She chose the best horse in the lot." Rockefeller was less proud, but amused, when Happy walked up to one animal in the cattle herd and quipped: "This is the first time I have been face-to-face with a bull." Whispered the Governor: "That's not a bull, that's a cow." The newly weds changed (he to a light tweed jacket, tie, rust slacks; she to an orange frock) for a lunch...
...want sex, we want sex," as they streaked for a dormitory occupied by women graduate students. The graduate girls peered out the windows and smiled tolerant, grownup smiles. Then the demonstrators headed for New Haven's Taft Hotel where police resorted to billy-whacking and pistol-packing to herd them back to Old Eli. Score: 17 arrested, one hospitalized. In Providence, the vernal urge for lingerie led marauding Brown University students to congeneric Pembroke College. Said Dean Rosemary Pierell: "It's the first time in 16 years that a horde of Brown men has managed to reach...
...contemplate the problems of the individual. More than 30 years ago, "to get away from the city," he moved to New Hampshire's White Mountains, where he designed and built three houses from materials found on his 670 acres. He grows most of his own food, has his own herd of cattle, and spends much...
...business, which was founded by Arvind's grandfather in 1905. Mafatlal lives with his wife and three children in a swank Altamont Road mansion in Bombay's outskirts, is served by a staff of 65. A devout Hindu, he eats no meat, keeps his own herd of cows to supply his family with milk, and wears simple white cotton from his own mills. Mafatlal and other Indian industrialists of his generation are more civic-minded and less apologetic about wielding great wealth than were their fathers and grandfathers. Since their companies generally thrive despite India's chaotic...