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...phenomenal growth in general aviation in the U.S. has continued unabated for a decade. The category embraces everything from a $5,000 secondhand Piper Cub used for weekend joyrides to a $6.5 million, 18-seat Grumman Gulfstream executive jet crammed with the latest airborne electronics. In between are the twins, turboprops and smaller jets operated by some 2,200 air-taxi operators and 200 commuter airlines. This year alone, companies such as Cessna, Beech and Piper will deliver 18,000 aircraft worth $1.8 billion to customers around the country...
...connections, he got a job as assistant manager of the city's airport. He took flying lessons from Elmer Page, a local instructor, and in 1939 joined him and three other men to form Page Airways, which operated a flying school and charter service. It began with two Piper Cubs, a Waco biplane and a desk borrowed from a Democratic ward office...
...accused American newsmen passed up their own trial; a movie projector sat where defendants normally do in the seedy Moscow courtroom. While Craig Whitney of the New York Times and Harold Piper of the Baltimore Sun vacationed in the U.S. last week, Soviet Judge Lev Almazov ruled that they had disseminated "libelous information denigrating the honor" of Soviet TV employees. Specifically, they had quoted sources doubting the authenticity of a dissident's confession broadcast on Soviet...
When Whitney and Piper return as planned within the next month, they may be subjected to Soviet harassment. Whether Moscow takes further action may depend on what Washington does. By way of not-so-veiled threat, the State Department summoned a Soviet diplomat to "discuss" the status of the San Francisco bureau of the Soviet press agency, Tass. But the Administration had not decided whether to make any retaliatory gestures beyond the moves that President Carter had made after Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky's conviction: he canceled the sale of a Sperry Univac computer to Tass and placed all American...
...Soviets clearly hoped that the Whitney-Piper episode might scare other Western newsmen off the dissidents story. But as U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told some American reporters in Moscow: "Knowing you as I do, I can't think their action will have that effect...