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With something like the grudging irritation that Queen Isabella's customs men must have felt when they waved Columbus into the black Atlantic, New York's kingly Port Authority last week granted limited permission to two airlines to operate commercial jet transports from Idlewild Airport. Within hours, the British Overseas Airways Corp. had hurriedly rounded up twelve paying passengers...
...freeloaders, stuffed them breathlessly aboard a jet Comet IV, was off from London with a roar, landing at Idlewild, after breasting headwinds, in ten hours...
...minutes. Soon after that Comet took off, another (five paying passengers, 23 freeloaders), charged off Idlewild's runway, made London in a snappy six hours, twelve minutes, some five hours less than normal piston flight. Thus, on the anniversary of Russia's Sputnik, began a new era in the 20th century's fast-changing history. The commercial jet age was a dramatic reality...
When he landed at New York's Idlewild Airport, a woman from his publisher's office met him with a copy of the unsigned, poison-pen letter-neatly typed, grammatically written and essentially correct. "Harry Golden," it said, "is an ex-convict" who once ran a stock-racketeering Manhattan "bucket shop." Barrel-shaped, cigar-chewing Harry Golden smiled long and thoughtfully. "I've been expecting it for some time," said...
Scared Silly. As the pressure built up, Idlewild gave grudging ground at week's end. It granted a 30-day extension to Pan Am to continue nonpassenger 707 flight tests between New York and Puerto Rico, allowing night flights and lifting the plane's weight restrictions from 190,000 Ibs. to the fully loaded capacity of 247,000 Ibs. But planes will still be required to follow strict flight and climb patterns that minimize annoyance to householders, because the Authority, said one airman, is still "scared silly" by its lawyers' warnings of possible householders' damage suits...