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TAPANESE planemakers, who once turned out 28,000 aircraft a year, are tooling up again. They have been granted rights to build such U.S. planes as the Beechcraft T-34 trainer and the Bell Model 47 helicopter, expect to find markets for the planes in Asia...
...bush airline, was making a routine charter flight in a Douglas DC-3 from Goose Bay, Labrador to Mont Joli, Quebec one afternoon last June. With him was his copilot, Bill Awatter. Because the weather was clear, they dropped to about 1,000 feet and began looking for a Beechcraft that had been lost with two men aboard earlier this year. Awatter took the controls, and LaPointe concentrated on ground search...
...Soraya. This was a consolation gift for her agreeing to remain a while in Rome for her "health." Then he boarded a chartered K.L.M. airliner for Bagdad, where he put on his gold-braided air marshal's uniform (specially flown from Teheran). He piloted his own twin-engined Beechcraft on the final leg to his capital...
Candidate Adlai Stevenson climbed into his state-owned, two-engine Beechcraft last week, and flew off to the Wisconsin north woods for three days of fishing and his first holiday since he won the Democratic nomination. He picked a Hollywood version of a hunting lodge on the 138-acre country estate of an old friend, Clark W. Finnerud, a Chicago dermatologist...
Governor Stevenson travels his state twice as much as his unlamented predecessor, but no faster. He still uses the same plane (a twin-engined Beechcraft). In the 36½ months he has been in office, he has traveled, within the state, an estimated 40,000 miles. But he does most of his work in the faded, 95-year-old governor's mansion, as magniloquent and dated as an 1845 oration, at the edge of downtown Springfield. (Since the divorce, the handsome, eleven-room frame house on Stevenson's 70-acre farm at Libertyville has been rented. Its present...