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...manufacturers. He runs his empire of nine scattered plants and 11,000 workers with a light hand. "I direct by invisible authority," he says. "If things are running right, I don't interfere." He keeps in touch by flying from plant to plant in his private twin-engine Beechcraft, relaxes in his Poona home by listening to Western classical music on a stereo hifi...
...clipping, $22,500 Senate salary, $5,000 from Barry's honorary post as chairman of the Goldwater division of Associated Dry Goods-totaled a tidy $65,000. The Goldwaters live well, so that total does not leave a surplus. Barry, for example, owns and pilots a $50,000 Beechcraft Twin-Bonanza. Each of the four Goldwater children gets a $3,000 gift check from Dad each year. This year he shelled out some money of his own for campaign expenses. And while he takes a very hard attitude on federal welfare handouts, Barry himself is "an easy touch," says...
...hour later, Tshombe proved to be as good as his word. Into Leopoldville's Ndjili Airport flew an Air Congo Beechcraft carrying Leftist Leader Antoine Gizenga, self-proclaimed heir to Patrice Lumumba and the instigator of Stanleyville's bloody 1961 revolt. Clad in a red, white and blue ski sweater, Gizenga was unshaven but smiling as he stepped out of the plane, apparently none the worse for the 2½ years he had spent on Bulambemba, an island prison in the mouth of the Congo River. It had not been a painful confinement, for his obliging jailers...
...twin-engined Beechcraft family...
...said later that he had once worried constantly about kidnapers, but that he hadn't thought about it for years because his children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm stopped him again ("You couldn't see the hood of the car," said the driver...