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...wild slug fest between Tom Mesereau of Eliot House and Hardy Wiedermann of Adams House brought the crowed of 100 spirited fans in the IAB to its feet, but the cheers turned to boos and heckels when referee Herbert Weissblum awarded the match to Mesereau...
...wild slug fest between Tom Mesereau of Eliot House and Hardy Wiedermann of Adams House brought the crowed of 100 spirited fans in the IAB to its feet, but the cheers turned to boos and heckels when referee Herbert Weissblum awarded the match to Mesereau...
Dingy. Deluged. Decrepit. The International Arrivals Building at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport was so rundown by the 1990s that arriving passengers, not a few of them escaping wretched Third World environments, probably wondered if they had made some cosmic mistake. The IAB was the crown jewel of jet-set travel when it opened in what was then Idlewild Airport in 1957, but three decades later, the country's most important global gateway was one of the worst. Experienced flyers preferred Newark. In New Jersey...
...time to come back. In June the airport christened a sparkling, soaring and sunlit new version of the IAB known officially and underwhelmingly as Terminal 4. But that dull moniker can't hide the fact that America's newest gateway may be its best. The graceful steel-and-glass structure boasts 40-ft. ceilings, Mongolian granite floors and colorful artwork and architecture that should distract anyone waiting in a long line. "We are trying to make an airport an enjoyable place to be," says Hans Mohrmann, the enthusiastic Dutchman who is president of Schiphol U.S.A., a division of Amsterdam...
...immigration area, where funky, massive bas-relief scenes of New York greet them. The airport is counting on federal agencies to increase staff at peak times; the building's public areas are designed to handle as many as 3,200 arriving passengers an hour, 60% more than the old IAB...