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...Senate, too, the Democrats staged a relatively minor North-South clash. Louisiana's Russell Long, 46, wanted to replace Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey as majority whip-even though Huey Long's son has a notable record of anti-Administration votes, including t hose against medicare, aid to education, foreign aid, the nuclear test ban treaty, the Peace Corps and civil rights. Because of past political favors, because the liberals were badly organized-and because the White House carefully did not intervene-Russell Long won out over Rhode Island's John Pastore and Oklahoma's Mike...
Some Under the Ground. There are the tall, serious Americans. At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, a line of UH-1B "Huey" choppers, cigar-chomping U.S. Army pilots at the controls, shatters the morning calm with a roar of cranked-up motors and the whip-whip-whip of whirling rotors. In Quang Due province, the local American adviser, a Negro captain, jounces along a red-dust path in his familiar Jeep, packing a .45 on his hip and speaking Vietnamese with a Basin Street beat. In a sandbagged patrol base in Binh Duong province, a U.S. captain sprawls...
...last week a familiar message came over the field radio in Kelly's headquarters; five Vietnamese and one American soldier had been shot in a fire fight near Cantho. As usual, Madman Kelly led the flight. As his "Huey" fluttered loudly into the paddyfield, the big red crosses on its side shone brightly in the high noon sun. Twenty feet away, the survivors and the wounded lay pinned down in their foxholes as Viet Cong ground fire crackled from a nearby wood line. So Kelly calmly lifted the Huey off the ground and began to "walk" it sideways toward...
...Viet Cong shifted their sights, began socking bullets into the helicopter. A steel-jacketed slug snapped through the Plexiglas, and Kelly slumped over the controls. The Huey crashed and rolled over, injuring the rest of the crewmen. Somehow they managed to pull the major from the wreckage, and went to work on Kelly's wound. It was in vain, for he was shot through the heart-the 149th American to die in action...
Grambling, La., is a sleepy Negro town in the heart of the peapatch and catfish country. The best way to get there is by car from Shreveport, over a highway that is partly pitted blacktop, built by Huey Long in the 1930s. But there is not much point in making the trip-unless, of course, you happen to be an athlete. Grambling is the home of Grambling College, a state-operated school with only 3,700 students, half of them girls, and year after year some of the best college football players in the nation. At last count, 17 Grambling...