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son play--in fact, the son may be shocked to learn that his father doesn't know what position he plays. (Because of ALPA work Behncke spends only 50 percent of his time in Chicago.) The other son is Raymond Charles, 14. They're probably even with their father, at that. They don't give a hoot about flying. 

PART III (Italicized)

When David L. Behncke, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, swings down the street from his office of Chicago's South Side, he's "Dave" to the boys. He eats around the corner at a Greek restaurant where, in season, shirtsleeves are definitely in style. A stranger could easily take him for just a neighborhood character.

Yet this "character" is a national figure. He is a man who can get to President Roosevelt on an important aviation issue (and who, in fact, led a fight to defeat the President once in the House of Representatives, only to lose later in the Senate because presidential prestige was involved). He can crack a whip in Congress. There is a belief he might be able to break a man in the CAA or CAB, though such power has never been tested.

Behncke is this influence as the head of a union--the union of more than 5,000 commercial airline pilots.

As unions go, the ALPA member-

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