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...garnered embarrassing fame in 1960 by getting caught spying on Russia in a U-2 airplane, is still spying -this time on traffic conditions on Los Angeles' freeways. Filling in for a vacationing traffic reporter, Powers says that the biggest change he can spot from his single-engine Cessna is that in the early '60s "when I flew at high altitudes, I could see from the Gulf of California to the Monterey Peninsula on a clear day. Now at 3,000 ft., with all the smog we have, sometimes I'm lucky to see three miles...
Johnson put his station attendants into blue-and-gold uniforms, standardized the instrument panels of his varying kinds of planes and set a rate structure that is not far off from that of a car-rental firm. The most inexpensive plane, a Cessna 150, rents for $13 a day and 13? a mile. For traveling businessmen who cannot fly themselves, Johnson will put on a pilot for another 5? a mile. To drum up business, Lease-A-Plane mails its own credit cards to all licensed pilots in each station's area...
...their part, the pilots complain that they are not being given the hottest U.S. aircraft. The U.S. has turned over 20 C-119 and 20 C-47 overaged transports as well as 100 Cessna A-37 light bombers to Saigon. The Vietnamese would have preferred the much newer C-7 Caribou transports and the faster and more sophisticated A-7 Corsair jet fighters developed by the U.S. Navy. South Vietnamese commanders also complain that while the U.S. needed 4,000 helicopters to conduct the war, it is giving the V.N.A.F. fewer than...
...marketers of Toro's lawnfighter, a grass cutter promoted as a convenience item, now include in their ads the pitch that "feature for feature, dollar for dollar, it's the best buy you can make." In an appeal to the austerity mood of corporations, Cessna notes in ads for its new 414 twin turbo engine business plane that "you can't buy a pressurized twin for less"-a mere $137,950. Even the haughty emporium of Abercrombie & Fitch claims to hold the line on prices for sporting goods, billing itself as New York's "Tight Money...
Wichita is as far from Boston's Dorchester-Mattapan section as it is from the Deep South. It is a prairie city, at 300,000 the largest in Kansas, a center of oil and agriculture, a major aircraft producer (Boeing, Beech, Cessna). It is also Middle America. Blacks make up just 12% of its population; it is only by accident of rotation that the single city commissioner who is black will become its next mayor. Wichita is a "placid" sort of place, says outgoing Mayor Donald Enoch. It is deeply conservative; the town fathers banned a proposed Wichita production...