Word: idlewild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three weeks later, just as perfunctorily, health officers at New York's Idlewild International Airport took the certificates at face value. They gave Missionary Orr a card on which was written: "As a precaution against introduction of smallpox: If you should develop suspicious symptoms of illness (such as chills, fever, weakness, loss of appetite, diarrhea) within the next seven to sixteen days, present this card promptly to a private physician or to health officers in your community. This is required by law." The word smallpox was in large letters. Orr pocketed the card and promptly forgot...
...Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos airport for hours before he flew, with 82 other travelers, on a Comet 4 jet to Idlewild...
...From Idlewild the Orrs taxied to Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal (the driver tried to overcharge them). In the busy, navelike waiting room, with its constant turnover of travelers, Jimmy Orr lay on a bench for almost seven hours sweating out a train for Toronto. While his family went to a nearby lunch counter for a snack, a motherly Negro tried to make the boy more comfortable. Then the five Orrs boarded the North Star, and sat up all night as the coach made seemingly unlimited stops. As they neared Toronto, Jimmy opened his shirt, looked at the itching...
...Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8 crashed and burned after an aborted take-off from New York's Idlewild Airport on Jan. 19, 1961 (4 dead, 102 survivors), apparently primarily because Eastern Air Lines Pilot William B. Poe closed the throttles just after liftoff. Poe, on hand to check out the plane's Mexican crew, was misled by an evidently faulty airspeed indicator which made him think the aircraft was not picking up speed fast enough to sustain flight...
...Sculpture. At Idlewild, TWA showed off its even more sculptured new terminal, best of the buildings put up there in the course of remodeling the airport. Basically the design is four huge shells of reinforced concrete, two of them stretching out like the wings of a bird...