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...blue and white, twin-engine Beechcraft Baron lifted off the choppy runway in Chillicothe, Mo., one evening last week, its occupants had good cause for jubilation. Millionaire Congressman Jerry Litton had just scored a dramatic upset in Missouri's Democratic senatorial primary. Now, accompanied by family and friends, he was headed for a victory party with 1,500 campaign workers in Kansas City's Hilton Plaza...
...engines apparently went dead. The plane banked sharply to the left, then plunged to earth. It tore through a barbed-wire fence, crashed in a soybean field and burst into flames that shot 30 ft. high. Amid the ashes and wreckage, sheriffs deputies found the bodies of Litton, 39, his wife Sharon, 36, and their two children. With them were their longtime friend and pilot Paul Rupp Jr. and his 18-year-old son. It was a ghastly finale to what had been one of the greatest days of Litton's political career...
Early results were just coming in when Litton left for the airport and the 22-min. flight to Kansas City. Moments before takeoff, the exuberant candidate telephoned ahead from an airport phone booth and told one of his campaign workers: "We're going...
...billion. Meanwhile, the shipbuilders are forced to dip into their own working capital to finance construction. They complain that the Navy has been trying to build too many ships with too little money. "You cannot expect a private company to finance the U.S. Navy," declares Glen McDaniel, chairman of Litton's executive committee...
...unrealistically low price in the initial contract. Then the specifications for ships and equipment are changed sometimes hundreds of times, causing delays and costly modifications. Navy-supplied weaponry often arrives late, and payments frequently run behind schedule. The amount of paper work involved in shipbuilding is mountainous. Litton has assembled 1½ tons of documentation, made up largely of Navy design changes, to justify its claims...