Word: beechcraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beechcraft Bonanza air taxi en route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to East Hampton, L.I., crashed as it was attempting to land after a door came open on take-off (four dead−including Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the State Department chief of protocol). As a possible reason for the crash, CAB suggested that the roar of air rushing past the open door space may have panicked one of the three women passengers into interfering with the controls or the pilot...
...could have your picture taken with him. My God, I'll bet there were 40 Midwesterners lined up to be in a picture who wouldn't have been seen dead with him a year ago." Baffling Fact. Flying back to Albany in his private, twin-engined Beechcraft, Rockefeller still seemed baffled by the fact that he should be considered a lib eral, as opposed to a conservative, Republican. "I," said Millionaire Rockefeller, "have as much to conserve as any one." But he had had a good week, and he knew...
...Knight, who has done no campaigning to date, hopes to inherit Knight's following ("He and I always saw eye to eye," says Powers). The other, more serious challenger to Nixon is Assemblyman Joseph C. Shell, 43. Shell has been buzzing busily around the state, piloting his own Beechcraft Bonanza from one campaign appearance to the next. A onetime University of Southern California halfback, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 210 lbs.) Joe Shell pitches his appeal to California's right wing: "I've gotten sick and tired of calling people liberals when they're basically socialists...
...with his wife and four children in an immense English Tudor house on 200 acres outside Dallas, attended by squads of help and surrounded by a collection of abstract art. He drives to work in a Porsche 1600 (one of three family cars), but prefers to travel in a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza that he pilots himself. To house it, he built a private airport two miles from his home -and, finding enough plane-owning neighbors around him, inevitably turned the airstrip into a profitable investment. Clint Jr. lives more modestly for the moment. He, his wife and four children have...
Last November he ran for the Senate against Johnson (who was also on the ticket as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate) and got 926,000 votes, far more than any Republican candidate for state office in Texas history. This time he barnstormed in a Beechcraft Bonanza, campaigned with a conservative verve that brought Conservative Leader Barry Goldwater into the state on his behalf...