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...evidence that Shadow should not be taken seriously, if at all, Frank Sinatra pops in as a soldier-of-fortune silot who quips, "Hey, don't leave me here alone, I'm anti-Semitic." Musical-comedy exuberance dominates a battle scene that has Sinatra aloft in a Piper Cub, bombing Egyptian tanks with Seltzer bottles and spraying soda at their planes. By then, the movie has trimmed its theme to fit the formula of any Clannish catered affair...
...India in the early 1960s as president of a four-plane freight airline. Suavely posing as an American millionaire, he won a contract from Air-India to haul freight between landlocked Afghanistan and Indian rail centers. Traveling freely throughout India, Walcott often made short hops in his twin-engine Piper Apache until one day in 1962, when police checked the plane and found a crate that everyone had assumed contained spare parts for one of Walcott's laid-up DC-4s. Instead police found 10,000 rounds of 12-gauge ammunition, an item that fetches six times...
...Tata. Then Walcott left India for points unknown, but he dutifully returned a few months later for the trial. He was found guilty, fined $420, but the prison sentence was commuted to the time he had already spent in jail. Walcott was free but not his Piper, which had been seized for debts. No one, however, seemed to mind that Walcott continued to care for the plane, pouring a few quarts of gas into its tanks each day, in order to run up the engines for a few minutes...
...them soar through the students' minds? The Atlanta public schools have blue-skied a wingding answer: they are teaching the kids to fly airplanes. Last week the most advanced of 45 boys and seven girls in the courses offered by three Atlanta high schools began flying a new Piper Cherokee 140 lent to the schools by the manufacturer...
...purpose man about town who posed for photographers between Christina and Henry. Uzielli's parents, also divorced, were there too. Mama was wearing a Balenciaga, and Papa, who works with Gianni at stockbroking, was squiring his second wife. At evening's close, as the last of the Piper Heidsieck '59 bubbled away, Henry pronounced himself well pleased. "Great party, eh?" he inquired of newsmen while he thumped Gianni on the back. "He planned it all," said Henry. "Maybe I should put him in charge of an assembly line...