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...active assignment. Reporter Miller sat up with Barry Goldwater until 2 a.m. one night while the Senator talked on his short wave radio to a fellow ham on the Pacific island of Kwajalein, flew to New Mexico with Goldwater at the controls of his own twin-engined Beechcraft Bonanza, went back to Washington with Air Force Reserve General Goldwater piloting an Air Force T-39 jet trainer. It was an interview, Miller said rather proudly, at 45,000 feet and 450 knots. Said Goldwater: "Loye had quite a ride...
...Hickam Air Force Base. Attending the University of Hawaii, he met a pert drum majorette named Trudy Olson. Among Trudy's attractions: she owned a third interest in a Piper Cub and taught flying. They were married in 1947; and today they fly in their own Beechcraft Bonanza (Cooper is the only plane owner among the astronauts). Their daughters. Cam, 14, and Jan, 13, sometimes take a supervised turn at the controls...
Headquartered in Waco, McCracken's company is housed in a modern, $150,000 building, has an electronic computer for subscription lists; he owns a Beechcraft Bonanza, which he pilots himself to sales meetings. Son of a Baptist preacher, McCracken still finds time to do some lay preaching. "There is more than just a commercial reason for being in any business," he says. "I'm just lucky that I'm able to accomplish so much good in mine...
...Loughlin) is typically yawn-provoking. As a youngster he waited on table for "polite boys" in button-down collars, and has venomously turned the tables ever since. Hero Cotten is a kind of airborne Hamlet who has always eluded company and husbandly duties by taking off in his Beechcraft Bonanza. How he comes to terms with his hated father's cast-in-bronze ghost in belated monologues of love and loyalty is more embarrassing than heartening...
AMONG the perils of reporting this week's cover story on David Rockefeller, Correspondent Marshall Berges counts a rocky trip from New York to Maine with his subject aboard a Beechcraft. They put down at Rockland in rough weather. Unable to go on, they tramped up and down U.S. 1 in the rain, only to find every motel flashing a "No Vacancy" sign. "I wasn't really worried," says Berges. "I figured that if things really got desperate, Rockefeller would buy us a motel...