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...Cessna & Cocktails. In the growing luxury market many a farmer is buying a plane, learning to fly as well as drive. Serving California's rich, irrigated Imperial Valley, an El Centre Cessna dealer reported that he had already sold four single-engined planes to farmers this year at prices from $8,999 to $15,000. A farm organization has put together $1,590 grand tours of Europe for its members this summer. Says the proprietor of Knoust's Party Shop in Phillipsburg. Mo. (pop. 170), noting that farmers are among his best customers for cocktail shakers, blenders...
...amiable bear of a man on the ground, Alabama's leviathan-like (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom while airborne seemed more like a barefoot boy with cheek. When he goes sailing off into the wild blue in his Cessna 180, Big Jim disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...
...Attorney General Edmund Gerald ("Pat") Brown, roamed Los Angeles, pressing hands and arguments. Both G.O.P. senatorial candidates, Governor Goodwin J. Knight and San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, pulled into town, and their Democratic opponent, Congressman Clair Engle, hopped from one airport to the next in a red and blue Cessna 310. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Hopeful William Fife Knowland flew out from Washington for a picnic in Riverside County, and his womenfolk bussed from Los Angeles to San Diego in their "Bill Knowland Special...
SMALL-PLANE BOOM will lift industry to peak profits this year. In first quarter, Cessna Aircraft enjoyed most prosperous period in 31-year history, saw after-tax earnings jump 86% over a year ago to $1,586,000. Beech Aircraft's earnings climbed to $907,500 from $756,000 in last year's first quarter...
Piper Comanche, the company's first low-wing, single-engined plane designed to challenge Cessna's virtual monopoly in the medium-priced field. Cruising speed: 160 m.p.h. over a 920-mile range with four passengers. Price...