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Pleasant Living. Far and away the most important operation was White Wing, led by 1st Air Cav Colonel Hal G. Moore, 43, a lean, laconic Kentuckian who earned a battlefield promotion at bloody la Drang last November. In that fight, he held together a single infantry battalion surrounded by three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars. This time he was the aggressor, leading the largest allied force of the war: five infantry battalions, four artillery battalions, plus a team of combat engineers and a troop of aerial reconnaissance men, all riding the helicopters of the most mobile force warfare has ever...
...gets out of the Army next year. During a sharp fire fight, Shiebert suddenly stood up, and grinned: "Why, I'm not afraid of the sons of bitches. Why don't they bring on their fight?" They talked with respect of Sergeant Eugene Pennington, 25, a laconic Kentuckian who during an ambush methodically counted the North Vietnamese facing him (84), the number of heavy weapons they carried (four mortars, five recoilless rifles), and even the number of shots they fired back while being mowed down (two). Said Pennington: "That's what the captain said...
...Chattanooga, the tradition was chiefly borne by Sulzberger's second child, Ruth, who also made a good marriage. Her choice was Ben Hale Golden, a Kentuckian who, after marrying Ruth, put in a long apprenticeship on the Chattanooga paper and by 1957 had worked his way up to publisher...
...said. Replied Winner Burns: "That's the first accurate statement he made during this campaign." Taking his place among the South's Governors, Burns, 52, a six-term may or of Jacksonville, will almost certainly prove to be one of the most colorful. A native Kentuckian, he is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), trim, and known as "Slick" because of his penchant for flashy clothes. Running for the nomination last spring, he found himself confronted by bloody race riots in Jacksonville. He overcame the potential political damage by appearing on statewide television to charge that the violence...
...trip because "we've got a lot of crazy drivers in this country"; he commanded Democratic congressional leaders at a legislative breakfast to "switch about twelve votes" in the House so that the Administration's once-beaten pay-raise bill could pass; he told a dead-broke Kentuckian on the porch of his shack to "take care of yourself, now"; and he quietly asked New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating during a plane ride to New York if he would please pray...