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Musto said that Eastern was prepared to accommodate all passengers by using as many additional planes as necessary for the Wednesday shuttle to La Guardia Airport in New York...
...keystroke he eliminated hundreds of tiny black dots showing the location of low-flying aircraft and private jets. What remained on the screen were larger, winged symbols representing commercial airliners. With a few more key taps he color-coded the jetliners according to their airport destination: red for La Guardia, green for Newark, brown for John F. Kennedy...
...little too wonderful, perhaps. In a series of vignettes organized by topic ("On Style," "On System," "On Race," etc.), Morris stages an uncritical celebration: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia gets six paragraphs, the city's restaurants get seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway tracks, gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin...
...winter of 1986 I passed through La Guardia Airport while on a hectic recital tour of the U.S. In the waiting area was a table loaded with anti- Soviet literature, a sort of monument to the cold war. Above the table was a sign: IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE ARMS RACE, YOU HAD BETTER STUDY RUSSIAN. I decided to have a chat with the two cheerful gentlemen who sat sipping soft drinks at the table. I wanted to find out why an American should study the language of Pushkin and Pasternak only if he felt threatened by a Soviet invasion...
...that is sometimes difficult to do in today's instrument-filled "glass cockpits," which require pilots to keep their heads down much of the time. Flights are diverted to open airports and long delays develop. At the New York area radar facility on Long Island -- which controls Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports -- one controller says, there is "some sort of equipment breakdown two or three times a month" during which "everybody scrambles into high gear...