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James B. Conant '14, United States High Commissioner for Germany, arrived at New York's Idlewild International Airport yesterday for talks with President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, and West-German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
After his landing at Idlewild, Conant said that Adenauer is expected to visit the University on April 17, adding that he would accompany the West-German Chancellor on his visit to Cambridge...
...from New York's Idlewild Airport last week roared a Trans World Airline Constellation, bound for a destination new to its crew: Ceylon. Some 41 hours and 10,000 miles later it put down at Colombo, the thriving capital. By week's end it was back with a cargo of 100 lbs. of Ceylon's finest tea, bandar Eliya (cost, $2.17 a lb.), a gift for T.W.A.'s officers for starting the first U.S. air service to the picturesque island. T.W.A. opened the route by extending its Bombay flight 1,000 miles to the southeast...
Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, left New York's Idlewild Airport on an eight-week, government-financed, round-the-world trip for a series of social welfare conferences in India, despite the protest of Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa. Gross, who thought the junket was flying pretty high for a lame-duck agency boss likely to be replaced a few days after his return, wrote President Truman insisting that the trip be canceled. The answer came at the White House press conference last week: the Ewing trip was none of Gross...
...Philadelphia, a small Cessna plane stood by to carry the pages to Idlewild Airport, where they were put aboard a flight scheduled to arrive in Paris early Thursday afternoon. Other page proofs were flown from Los Angeles to Honolulu and Tokyo, and from Idlewild to Miami, to be transferred to a chartered Pan American flight for Cuba. Stories were also cabled directly from the U.S. to Paris and Tokyo, as a safeguard against delays in air traffic. Buried in the mass of detail these arrangements involved, TIME Production Chief Bert Chapman confessed: "At a time like this, I carry...