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...crusty Olive Ann Beech, 69-year-old head of Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp., is queen of the private-plane industry, her nephew Frank Hedrick is crown prince; since 1968 he has been Beech president. The division of labor has worked well, piloting Beech from a $7.7 million loss in fiscal 1970 to a $7,000,000 profit the next year. Now the family management team has begun merger negotiations with troubled Grumman Aircraft, which lost $70 million in 1972 mostly because of cost overruns on the Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter plane. Grumman officials contend that...
...Wichita, Kans...
Also: Sidney S. Soldate of Leverett House and Arcadia, Calif.; Gayle L. Stephens of Dudley House and Wichita, kansas; Kenneth P. Swartz of Mather House and Newton; John A. Vering III of Eliot House and Marysville, Kansas; and, Brent H. Vine of Mather House and West Princeton...
...sect operates a network of welfare agencies in India and has spread to more than 30 foreign lands, including a vocal U.S. branch based in Wichita, Kans. The sect now has at least 2.5 million converts in India alone, many of them recruited among frustrated youths who are educated but jobless...
...finds himself alone, many of his closest friends dead, most of his contemporaries retreating into a more reserved, intellectualized version of a poetry he helped to create. The Fall Of America continues Ginsberg's undaunted quest for his own separate but absolute reality. ("Iron Horse," along with the earlier "Wichita Vortex Sutra," is to be read as part of The Fall...) While he is less personal now, he never forgets, as William Burroughs puts it, "what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing." So, even in their many weaker moments, the poems hold together well, guided...