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...District Judge Herbert Christenberry, 67, was born and bred in New Orleans, is an old Huey Long man, was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana by Frank lin Roosevelt in 1942, and was appointed to his present judicial post by Harry Truman in 1947. He is a tough old bird, and he has not been notable for taking any guff from anyone...
...takes plenty of heart as well as guts, and the MEDEVAC teams are known throughout South Viet Nam as "the gamest bastards of all." Their deep-chested, $250,000 "Huey" choppers (capacity: ten patients each) have evacuated 8,864 wounded troopers-, Vietnamese and American-since...
...President recalled a story once told to him by Louisiana's Huey Long. It was about a farmer who couldn't sleep at night because of "frogs barking in the pond." The farmer was so irked by the noise that finally "he went out and drained the pond and killed both frogs." Said the President: "We aren't going to kill anybody, but we recognize the frogs and the ponds and they keep us awake sometimes. That is the freedom we love." Johnson added, "I have been around Congress too long-35 years-not to understand that...
WARRANT OFFICER CHRISTOPHER G. HUNT, 21, of San Jose, Calif., an Army helicopter pilot, currently operates out of Saigon airport, flying either a UH-1B "Huey," which staggers into the air carrying 6,000 rounds of machinegun ammunition and 14 rockets, or a "Hawg," a version of the Huey, which packs 48 rockets. Since last September, when Hunt arrived in Viet Nam, his outfit, the 197th Aviation Company, has suffered eight dead-out of a total complement of 160 officers...
...this is what Sumner A. ("Huey") Long enjoys most. A Manhattan ship broker, Long, 42, turns into a regular Captain Bligh when he takes the wheel of his aluminum-hulled, 57-ft. yawl Ondine. "He never lets you rest," complains Ondine's mate, Alex Salm. "He'll drive you out of your mind just to make a tenth of a knot more speed." Replies Long: "If you enjoy a sport to the ultimate, the ultimate is your standard...