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...collects about $20 million yearly for repairs on U.S. aircraft from Viet Nam. Air America's total fleet numbers about 150, including little single-engined Helio Couriers and Pilatus Porters, which can land in 250 feet or less, a Super Constellation with peculiar humps on its fuselage, and Huey helicopters. Most of the repairs and ground work are handled by Air America's 9,000 Nationalist Chinese and Philippine employees. The line's 400-odd pilots are nearly all recruited from the U.S. military services, draw an average $18,000 in base pay, plus bonuses for hazardous...
...with the Huey Long look, men are adopting the wide tie-when they can find it. In Los Angeles, Men's Store Owner "Mr. Guy" Greengard, who designs his own, says: "I haven't sold a 21-in. tie for months. Three inches have been my staple, and now I'm going for four." In New York, Photographer Camilla ("Cookie") Smith had one made up for her brother at Christmas time, has had so many requests since then that she has temporarily shut her shutter. At $10 each, she is selling 40 "limited-edition," 41-in., signed...
...ambulance rides have been virtual ly eliminated by the ungainly choppers that brave everything from bullets to a sheet of monsoon rain, day or night. "Man, that chopper's roar don't bother me a bit," said a young marine last week as he watched a noisy Huey land to pick up a wounded buddy. "Sounds more like angels singing." Whereas only 10% of the wounded were carried by copters in Korea, the ratio is up to 90% in Viet Nam, says Colonel Spurgeon Neel Jr., chief medic of the U.S. Military Assistance Command...
Elapsed Time: 35 Minutes. There was no triage problem in the case of Marine Colonel Michael R. Yunck, 47. As operations officer of the First Marine Air Wing, Yunck had helped to plan Operation Harvest Moon; later he went out in a four-man armed "Huey" helicopter, directing fighter-bomber attacks south of Danang. He was about to call in a strike on a tiny, nameless hamlet when he looked down. His chopper was low enough for him to see women and children. It was also low enough for a Viet Cong machine gunner to sight in on the Huey...
Died. Julius T. Long, 86, elder brother of Louisiana's Huey and Earl Long, a onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey's political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother "the greatest political burglar of all times"; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport...