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Prototype: Idlewild. The most glittering airport showcase-and one of the first to be rebuilt-is New York International Airport at Idlewild, the gateway to the U.S. (an estimated 8,550,000 air travelers this year). Because Idlewild is one of the world's busiest airports (an average of 640 landings and takeoffs a day) and a technological primer of jet age forethought, it has become the prototype and laboratory for many of the world's changing airports. This week ten officials of Aeroflot, the Soviet civil airline, will poke through every nook and cranny of Idlewild...
Built in 1942 on land reclaimed from Jamaica Bay and what was once a golf course, Idlewild has become a vast, gleaming concrete-and-glass tiara (see color} covering 4,900 acres and representing an investment of $330 million. Much more than merely a big new airport, it typifies a whole new jet age concept: a self-contained airport city, so complete that it has two dramatic societies and an animal-port where anything from parakeets (50? a day) to lions ($5 a day) can be boarded...
...passel of Fascist-minded Mosleyites picketed the Ritz Hotel where Lumumba stopped, and Ghana's High Commissioner in Britain, Sir Edward Asafu-Adjaye, was knocked down by two of the Mosleyites, whose slogan is "Keep Britain White!" Unscathed, as usual, Patrice Lumumba reached New York's Idlewild airport this week. Speaking to a dawn patrol of newsmen, Lumumba said softly that peace in Congo "is conditioned on the immediate withdrawal of Belgian troops," and offered his "compliments and friendship" to President Eisenhower. Signing autographs on his way through the air terminal, and looking more like an earnest divinity...
...around out there." By Friday night it was time for him, too, to head "out there." As he left home, the Irish maids of wealthy Hyannisport neighbors lined up across the street to give him a sendoff. From Hyannis, he and Wife Jackie flew to New York's Idlewild Airport, stayed at a nearby hotel overnight. Then, sternly refusing to kiss Jackie goodbye for the photographers, Jack boarded a jetliner called "Flagship West Virginia" and headed west across...
...strange wave of "sickness" among pilots that has forced Eastern Air Lines to cancel 90% of its nights was spreading to other lines last week. At a meeting in a motel across from New York's Idlewild International Airport, Eastern Air Lines pilots asked Pan American and TWA pilots to develop sympathetic symptoms that would keep them from flying planes too. By week's end, Pan American was forced to cancel flights as more than 102 pilots called in to say they were ill,. When Pan American flight supervisors telephoned reserve crews, they got a standard answer: "Sorry...