Word: idlewild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quadros made his first trip outside Latin America, a holiday jaunt to Europe and the U.S. with Eloá and his daughter Tutu. In Europe, he fell in love with London ("a man's town"). The U.S. was not so endearing. At New York's Idlewild Airport he had a raging two-hour argument over a lost vaccination certificate; he detested Manhattan's bitter January cold, despite all that U.S. friends such as Nelson Rockefeller could do to thaw him out. He went to Washington to pay homage at the Lincoln Memorial, was ignored by U.S. officialdom...
...passenger list of Sabena Airlines' 707 Jet Flight 548 for Brussels counted all the types that have become so familiar to airline attendants at New York's Idlewild International Airport. There was the young man bound for Warsaw to the bedside of his cancer-ridden mother, the teen-age wife of a Europe-based serviceman making her first flight, the pregnant young wife of another overseas G.I., the middle-aged priest going to Brussels for a reunion with his parents, the tourists brimming with language books and visions of Notre Dame and Rimini, the comfortably tired Brussels businessman...
...Idlewild: It could be ours on approach control, New York...
...Idlewild: A United...
...Idlewild: He was last cleared...