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...them, was proving himself a skilled political prestidigitator as well. Standing for both the national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night and flew his own Beechcraft to a rally of voters in a tiny village 70 miles south of Jodhpur City...
Flying the same Beechcraft Bonanza used by the late Bill Odom for his 1949 record hop from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J., Illinois Congressman Peter F. Mack Jr., 34, left Springfield on the first lap of his round-the-world "Abraham Lincoln Good Will Tour." The purpose: to visit the people of some 30 nations and convince them that "Americans don't want war any more than they do." He expects to be home by January with some results to report...
Working nights and weekends, they wrote stockholders, charged the management was "inefficient and decadent " and should be tossed out. To round up proxies Smith flew his secondhand Beechcraft Bonanza plane one-armed around the country (blood poisoning cost him his right arm when a boy). In his whirlwind campaign, Smith spent more than $6,000 -but it paid off. At the stockholders' meeting last October, Smith's group won by 14,000 votes out of the 600,000 cast. Out of the $25,000-a-year presidency went
...campaign. He had started his counterstroke a year ago, after Labor Day, campaigned until January, resumed the battle again last August. The 61-year-old Taft acted as though he were determined to show his face to every man, woman & child in the state. Occasionally, he went in a Beechcraft plane, piloted by his second cousin, David Ingalls, the Navy's only flying ace in World War I. More often Mr. Republican went by Ingalls' Chrysler, driven at a hair-raising rate by Airman Ingalls in a Tyrolean...
...neither his pals, parties nor weekends-which have sometimes been spent overturning speedboats at Santos or buzzing a Beechcraft over apartment houses-seem to interfere with Baby's business affairs...