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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...
...therefore, all the more astonishing that Fulbright last week came up with a gratuitous pronouncement more to be expected of an Arkansas "hawg caller" than of a responsible and influential student of world affairs. In a lengthy Senate speech discussing for eign aid, he got to talking about the U.S. balance-of-payments problem, suggested that U.S. tourists could help by touring at home instead of abroad...
...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...
Worse yet is the phony backwoodsiness of much of the dialogue ("Yuh doan git lard less'n yuh boil the hawg"), and worst of all is the teary sentiment that blears every other frame of the film and wallows to a climax of blubbering bathos when a little girl, as the carnage at the Alamo concludes, turns to her mother and piteously inquires: "Mummy, where's Daddy...
There was Uncle Jack, who was once a character witness for a man accused of bootlegging. The court records in Montgomery County show that, asked how he made a living, Uncle Jack replied: "We are in the hawg business. We steal a few. We also makes a little whisky, dynamites fish, shoots any kind of game we pleases, runs rooster fights and pitfights, bulldogs and such. We gets by right-near the same as all these old poor-rumped people around here does." Asked how he knew the defendant stole hogs, the record's answer: "Because I sometimes hold...