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...Delta Air Lines is deeply concerned about your story "The Hero Galley" [Feb. 15]. It depicts Lieut. William Galley as someone who, in recent weeks, has become the recipient of numerous favors and gratuities. It relates that Delta's Columbus, Ga., station personnel have "wired ahead for VIP treatment...
...have checked the matter with our Columbus station personnel. They have denied that they have ever given or requested VIP treatment for Lieut. Galley...
Delta has never authorized preferential or VIP treatment for the lieutenant...
...they are head-on (36 inches), the Army's sleek $457,000 Cobras have broad flanks, and they are fully exposed to enemy gunners during the pull-out after a strike. Probably the most available targets over Laos today are the ubiquitous Hueys, which serve as everything from VIP tour buses to combat assault gunships that fire 6,400 rounds of minigun fire in a minute. Though U.S. pilots generally give ARVN high marks for bravery, some pilots complain that the South Vietnamese have misused Medevac on occasion. Angry flyers tell of having braved fierce Communist fire to answer...
...Henry Withers, a general practitioner with a large practice in Houston, also serves as VIP-only physician on call for the city's swanky Warwick Hotel. One night recently he got a call from a frantic guest, Martha Mitchell. Her daughter Marty, 10, had a sore throat and fever. When the good doctor turned up, Martha turned up her nose. "He looked like a busboy," she said later. "His hair was frazzled. He had on funny-looking clothes." Withers says he thought he looked "pretty nice. I had showered. I had on a new sports coat, new slacks." When...