Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Double (Paramount). Danny Kaye is one of a precious clutch of performers who can still appear alone on a bare stage and hold audiences from riffraff to royalty rapt for hours. Yet Hollywood insists on ballooning his Pied Piper image with Panavision, or multiple-tracking his slap-happy sounds, or painting simple comedy in exotic new colors. His recent films, including this one, have added enough gimmicks and gewgaws to throttle Danny's vintage gitgatgittle. What was once A-OK is now beginning to seem just Oh, Kaye...
...campaign trail last week, Matheson was covering the district in a compact station wagon, and Udall was flying his own Piper Tri-Pacer. But with the whole Udall clan pitching in for Mo, Matheson was beginning to feel the pinch. "I feel like I'm running against a relay team," he said. "No sooner do I get through with one Udall than he hands the baton to a brother...
...himself), was trying to get a library going. When the fighting started, Corrigan was in the air more than ever, flying leaflet-dropping missions over enemy lines as well as his movie runs. He distrusted the rickety planes he had to ride, once pointed to a battered single-engined Piper Tri-Pacer and advised a newsman: "I wouldn't fly in that for a million dollars." But when Cor igan got ready to deliver movies to the small town of Hong Sa, the Tri-Pacer was the only plane around. Just after takeoff, the engine quit. The plane crashed...
...anachronism, Senior Birdman Max Conrad, 58, still flies the featherweight flivvers of his youth, stocks his cockpit with a rhyming dictionary for versifying while aloft, has made 79 solo crossings of the Atlantic. Last week, the latter-day Lindbergh landed his Piper Aztec at Miami International Airport after logging a 25,457-mile trip around the world. His time-eight days. 18 hours, 49 minutes-chopped 20 days off the previous record for light piston craft...
Specifically, the Skymaster is aimed at the $40,000-class twin-engine plane market now dominated by Piper's Apache. The Skymaster, to go into production next year, will be powered by two new Continental 180-h.p. engines, carry four passengers at a cruising speed of about 180 m.p.h., take off and land in less than 800 ft. of runway, fly as high as 22,000 ft. and climb 1,550 ft. per minute. Moreover, the unusual tandem engine mounting virtually eliminates the problem of torque and unbalance that usually occurs when a conventional twin-engine plane loses power...