Word: beechcraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There he may very well be waited on by the saturnine president of the company, Stanley Marcus, 55, who scours the world looking for unique, elegant and off-beat items-and likes to sell them himself. This Christmas, for the well-heeled customer, he has a matched pair of Beechcraft airplanes neatly emblazoned "His" and "Hers" for $176,000, an espresso coffee-making machine at $250, or a roast beef serving cart for $2,230 (which, Marcus points out, "includes 300 lbs. of steaks or 600 lbs. of beef on the hoof...
...energetic stumper, Goldwater keeps rolling 18 to 20 hours a day, often piloting himself in a chartered Beechcraft. He shakes every hand in sight. He autographs copies of his bestselling Conscience of a Conservative (now in print: 103,000 hardbacks, 400,000 softbacks). He was the first nationally known Republican in history to campaign in Spartanburg, S.C. last month...
...Guard is Arizona's handsome U.S. Senator, Barry Morris Goldwater, 51. Individualist Goldwater, boss of four prospering Arizona department stores developed from a business started by a Jewish peddler grandfather, was an Army Air Forces pilot in World War II, now campaigns in a twin-engined Beechcraft, has been twice elected to the Senate in a state with a 2½-to-1 Democratic edge in registration. He is already the half-serious choice of Republicans in South Carolina and Arizona for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, is working diligently to gather support for the vice-presidential nomination...