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...years of severe recession, consumers and businesses put off any purchases that they can, and hardly any purchase would seem more readily postponable than a private plane costing from $5,000 (for a used Piper Cub) to $1.6 million (for a new Learjet). But 1975 turned out to be the "general aviation" industry's best year ever. In the twelve months ended last September, sales of private planes jumped 12%, to just over $1 billion...
...Three-quarters of all flying time logged by small aircraft is accounted for by business travelers, and corporations buy the lion's share of the most popular planes in each of the industry's principal categories: the Cessna 172 Skyhawk single-engine (1976 price: $20,750), the Piper Seneca twin-engine ($75,100) and the Cessna Citation jet ($845,000). Though the operating costs of small planes are high, many corporations justify the craft as necessities. High fuel and labor costs have compelled airlines to cut back on both flights and routes. Only 425 domestic airports...
...travel from New York to Keokuk is getting harder," observes Cessna's Meyer. Keokuk, however, is precisely the kind of place where many executives need to go, as corporations decentralize operations. J. Lynn Helms, president of Piper, based in Lock Haven, Pa., tells of executives of an Ohio company who had to visit a plant in Mississippi several times a week. Their door-to-door travel time was reduced from eleven hours to 3½ hours after the company began flying them direct in its own Piper...
...mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell was a child's delight, full of games and good spirits and tall tales. As the Pied Piper of Cairn Voel, his country retreat on the Cornwall coast, he used to lead his young followers on hunts for the ingredients of a special home brew-a concoction of stagnant water, mold, dead leaves, old grass and whatever other unsavories could be dredged up at the moment...
...meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is aware that the piper must always be paid, that his heroes must eventually return home to separate fates. Although they used to worship at entirely different literary shrines (Hemingway on the one hand, Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability to create a bestseller...