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Doubled Procurement. The number of choppers operating in Viet Nam has grown from 500 in June to 950 today. By year's end there 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...
...wildlife photographer in the remote reaches of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has suffered eleven bone frac tures, and frostbitten toes are a commonplace. Once, when stranded for eight days at the tip of the Alaskan peninsula, he survived by fishing safely while a grizzly bear pack lurked near by. He rarely carries a rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell, I'm going to take pictures no matter what happens...
...Viet Nam, it will have to do so somewhere else." The pragmatists also object to rehashing the past. "Those people still debating why we went in are beating a dead horse," says Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal Managing Editor Jean Sue Johnson. "There's no way to just pack up and go home...
...would seem that cheerleading would be one endeavor in which experience wouldn't make a whole lot of difference, but it did. Last year we kind of resembled pack mules. We had laboriously prepared signs for our favorite Patriots; and not just one sign for a player. We had all the letters for spelling out G-I-N-O and B-A-B-E and C-A-P-P-E-L-E-T-T-I and P-A-R-I-L-L-I on separate cards, plus additional cards...
Eamon O'Reilly of Georgetown could have crawled the last 50 yards and still led the huge pack. He shaved 17.6 seconds off the meet record, with a five-mile time of 24:24.2. Two hundred yards behind in second was Charles Messenger of Villanova. Messenger was last year's freshman champion...