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...status symbols of the high-flying 1960s, but as the decade closed, sales of executive jets and other private planes fell as much as 50%. Now, in every category of "general aviation" aircraft, which reaches from the $3,500,000 Grumman Gulfstream II jet to the tiny $14,580 Piper Cherokee, sales are once again on the wing. Manufacturers are pretty much in agreement on the basic reason for the reversal. Says Grumman American Aviation President Russell Meyer: "It's clearly geared to the upswing in the economy...
...Republicans on the national scene. Tall, handsome and 33 -he will be the U.S.'s youngest Governor-Lawyer Bond has assets that go well beyond a wealthy family and a Deerfield-Princeton-University of Virginia pedigree. He won with energy and charm, crisscrossing the state in a chartered Piper Seneca to speak in a faint Missouri twang to factory hands, bar groups and housewives on an issue that he has been able to mine deeply after two years as state auditor: mismanagement and corruption...
These structural changes bumped the final cost up to $8 million. Doebele says the Gund family was very sympathetic to the financial pressures throughout the project, and defrayed all additional costs. The W.T. Piper Auditorium which seats about 400, and the Frances Loeb Library were funded separately with the stipulation that the building was constructed to permit entrance to both facilities without entering Gund Hall...
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...Stones $3 million-by tearing off his clothes on the stage of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. As it turned out, that was one of the few things that didn't happen. At the Garden itself, packed with 20,000 screaming fans, the Stones presented their Pied Piper with a huge birthday cake, then cannonaded him with custard pies that splattered over the front-row customers. Then on to the birthday party at the normally staid St. Regis Roof, where Count Basie alternated with Muddy Waters to provide music, and Andy Warhol fluttered around aiming a Polaroid camera...