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...Congregational minister, Noyce grew up in Iowa. After earning a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T., he got his start working for William Shockley, the Nobel-prizewinning co-developer of transistors. Noyce is married to Ann Bowers, a vice president of Apple Computer. He enjoys piloting a twin-engine Cessna Citation jet and is an avid downhill skier. Friends consider Noyce something of a daredevil, both in the way he lives and in the way he invests...
Most residents of Managua were still asleep when the first attack began. Swooping low over the southwestern part of the Nicaraguan capital, a twin-engine Cessna dropped a bomb near the home of Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto, who happened to be in Panama City at a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers. The bomb missed D'Escoto's house, no one was injured and the plane flew off into the predawn darkness. A few minutes later a second Cessna appeared, over Augusto César Sandino Airport, about eight miles outside the city...
City fathers regard their current problems as a temporary setback and are banking on Wichita's diversified aircraft industry to ignite a new takeoff. Beech Aircraft, Cessna and Gates Learjet serve the general aviation market, while production at Boeing, the city's largest employer, is 55% defense related. Boeing and Beech reportedly plan to hire 8,000 more employees over the next few years. Unlike many other Midwest cities, Wichita may need no major economic retooling. Says Jerry Mallot, a Chamber of Commerce official: "Much of our industry is in the high-tech area...
When a twin-engine Cessna lost power and crashed in Montgomery, Ohio, last week, four FBI agents and a retired policeman were killed, the largest single-day loss of FBI agents. But the revelation that the sixth passenger, Carl Johnson, had been declared legally dead just weeks before the crash put a bizarre twist on the disaster...
...Diego and had become an active member of the Religious Science Church Center there. Johnson turned himself in to authorities on Dec. 2. Eight days later Johnson led FBI agents to a cache of $53,000 he had buried in a wooded area northwest of Chicago. When the Cessna crashed, Johnson was helping agents find $55,000 he said he had buried near Cincinnati. Johnson's attorney, Louis Garippo, said that his client was the only person who knew the exact location of the loot...