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...came on a beautifully sunny day. Accompanied by Jack. Old Joe strolled out of his Palm Beach mansion and got into a waiting limousine. Just then, four-year-old Caroline Kennedy appeared at the doorway of the house. "I'm going to the airport with your father." Joseph Kennedy called. "Would you like to come along?" Of course she would. She climbed onto her grandfather's lap and went off to wave the President away for Washington...
...Norman Simmons. "A routine landing in every way, except that we didn't unload passengers or baggage." Aboard the jet the passengers sat in shocked silence as a hostess instructed them to stay in their seats: "We may be flying on to Havana." Cody Bearden lounged in the doorway of the cabin, casually swinging his .45 revolver and keeping a sullen eye on the frightened passengers. Then a pregnant female passenger seemed to be approaching hysteria about her plight, and Leon Bearden apparently thought he could see an uncontrollable situation in the making. He recruited four passengers to remain...
...Airport near Washington, D.C., which opens for business next year, was a mobile lounge, an innovation credited to Eero Saarinen that should make plane waiting a bit more pleasant. After checking in at the ticket counter, the passenger goes to the proper loading gate, which is really the wide doorway into the lounge. The lounge (54 ft. long, 17½ ft. high and 16 ft. wide) has comfortable chairs, tinted windows, piped-in music and air conditioning. At take-off time, it is driven to the waiting plane parked on the runway. The lounge ramp is fitted to the door...
...chair at the right angle, good for catching the hems of dresses, lovely for scarring kneecaps, gouging table legs, and catching falling babies in the eye. Not to mention that those protuberances will be the first thing the movers will manage to hit the newly painted doorway with, damaging both door and way and chair...
...again aloud. His persistent awkwardness in phrasing is well illustrated by the following passage from Song of a Traveller: Spring, which in Philadelphia is wild./Is not in Boston yet. Like a stubborn child/Who will not curtsey to the lady she thinks a witch,/Spring cowers in Boston's doorway to stamp and bitch...