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Then the trip really began going sour. Without explanation, all passengers were told to leave the plane during a Denver stopover. Another hour passed. After reboarding, they waited 40 minutes for takeoff. By the time they reached New York at 1 a.m., four hours overdue, La Guardia's runways were closed for the night, and the jumbo jet was diverted to Kennedy. At La Guardia, Charley's girlfriend Melanie waited for three hours before learning what had happened. Poor Charley had almost become the jet-age version of the 1959 Kingston Trio hit about the "man who never returned." Declared...
...certain key airports. The number of late flights at New Jersey's Newark airport is running 40% above last year's and is the highest in the nation: an average of 146 delays for every 1,000 takeoffs or landings. Other laggards include New York's La Guardia (91 delays per 1,000 operations), Boston's Logan (72), New York's Kennedy (71), San Francisco International (62) and Chicago's O'Hare (48). Delays have become so routine during peak travel hours that AT&T advises its executives flying to meetings to allow an extra three hours' traveling time...
...unusually clear; the stars show. Maria does not notice them. Planes fly in low over Fourth Avenue, one after the other, on their way to La Guardia Airport...
...week before the New York Marathon I was in a cab on my way to La Guardia Airport. The cabbie, trying to make conversation, said, "You see all those cars going the other way? Those are the runners coming in for the marathon...
...three terms as mayor of New York City, a politician must come to personify the town. Fiorello La Guardia and Robert Wagner did so and became the only three-termers in the 20th century. Now the brash and blabby Edward Koch is about to join them. Last week he won the nomination for a third four- year term with the heaviest majority in any Democratic mayoral primary this century. Koch, 60, vaporized his opponents, City Council President Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., by taking 64% of the city's Democratic vote. His electric personality and his record...