Word: hu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrillas' monopoly. The antiquated "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...
...such recent effort is a hortatory "hu manitarian prayer," composed by Meth odist Scout Leader Clifford John Mer cer, 23, that has been used in a summer camp run by the Detroit Council of Churches. Sample lines: "God . . . God . . . Hey God! Can you hear me? 0 God, sometimes talking to you is like talking to a brick wall . . . Hey, Fa ther, look at the world - will you look at it, Father?" Churches are constantly experimenting with new ways to bring prayer to the peo ple. On their own initiative, dedicated Christian laymen are experimenting with new forms of corporate worship...
During the last seven years about 200 HU Press titles have been reprinted as paperbacks on the basis of individual arrangements with many different publishers. Although the new arrangement does not give Athe exclusive rights. Mark Saxton, promotion manager for the HU Press, said it will probably become the principal paperback publisher of HU Press titles...
...first four HU Press titles to be printed by Atheneum will come out in September. About 15 more are scheduled to appear during...
...Died. Hu Shih, 70, onetime (1938-42) Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. and Nationalist China's most venerable scholar-statesman; of a heart attack; near Taipei (see THE WORLD...