Word: idlewild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are two poems, "Letter from a Foreign City," by Verandah Porche and "Idlewild Airport" by Steve Lerner. Verandah Porche's poem is like a house. A woman lies in her man's bed writing a former lover for "some fatherly advice." She is "gentle in the lap of love," has redeemed her days, "Have peeled your life from mine/like a tangerine...
...Time, Life, and The New York Times about political matters. "What this country needs right now is not a golf player but a poker player," he said of Eisenhower after the Suez crisis of 1956. His other letters to the Times, including one on an airplane crash at Idlewild Airport and another about U-2 pilot Gary Powers, closely resemble the work of Moses E. Herzog...
...Time, Life, and The New York Times about political matters. "What this country needs right now is not a golf player but a poker player," he said of Eisenhower after the Suez crisis of 1956. His other letters to the Times, including one on an airplane crash at Idlewild Airport and another about U-2 pilot Gary Powers, closely resemble the work of Moses E. Herzog...
...somber ceremony witnessed by Brother Ted, 31, and Sister Jean, 35, New York International Airport (Idlewild) was officially rededicated as John F. Kennedy International Airport. There were a few brief speeches and a patter of applause as the 3-ft.-high J.F.K. initials were unveiled prior to being installed atop the International Arrivals Building. It was a "fitting memorial," allowed former President Harry Truman, 79, two days later. But even so, continued H.S.T., Americans in their grief are in too much of a hurry to rename everything, "including the pups and cats. After things settle down...
...Brazil. When local cops tumbled to the game, Belle had a choice of going on trial there or back home. Home was where the clink is cleaner, and Belle was hustled aboard a New York-bound jet by a gent from Interpol. Two FBI men showed up at Idlewild to greet him, and after health authorities officially welcomed him with an on-the-spot smallpox shot, he was taken off to face 79 federal counts of financial transgression...