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...will be some 1,450 of them in Viet Nam. Helicopters and trained crews have been plucked from strategic reserve divisions to be pack aged into new units for immediate assignment to Viet Nam. For the long run, the Army has more than doubled its procurement of UH-1B (Huey) and CH-47A (Chinook) helicopters, and is trebling the number of new helicopter pilots it turns out-from 95 a month to 290 by early next year. The Pentagon has also authorized development of a fast new armed helicopter, the first designed exclusively as a weapons ship...
...help the "amiable bookkeeper," as Jacob Javits called Beame, Hubert Humphrey contributed kind words and one full day's campaigning. Bobby Kennedy turned up in New York now and then, sardonically informed one gathering that the Democrats are "the party of Roosevelt, Truman, John F. Kennedy . . . and Huey Long...
...division's 428 helicopters was on its way, and on their heels came the first of the division's 16,000 men, commanded by Major General Harry William Osborn Kinnard. At the same time, an advance party of 1,000 men, 254 tons of equipment and nine "huey" helicopters was quietly whisked to Viet Nam from the division's Fort Benning base in a secret, seven-day airlift...
...Huey. The need for speed and for minimal down-time in Viet Nam has vastly increased the use of the turbine engine, which provides more power than pistons and can fly about four times longer without an overhaul. The most common helicopter in Viet Nam up to now has been the workhorse Huey (the nickname for Bell's UH-1B), but the trend today is toward larger, more powerful craft. Vertol's 44-passenger, turbine-powered Chinook has already gone into service, and the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) is using Sikorsky's turbine-powered CH-54As...
Thirty years after the flamboyantly autocratic "Kingfish" was assassinated in a hallway of the state capitol in Baton Rouge, the man who used to be known back home as the "Princefish," Louisiana's Senator Russell Long, 46, offered some revisionist thinking. "By any objective standards," said Huey's son, taking the long view, "Huey Long was the best Governor Louisiana ever had." As a matter of fact, said the Senator, recalling what Dad dictated in the way of social and welfare programs (abolition of the poll tax, free night schools for illiterates, free textbooks for children, doubling...