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Clutching the hand of her father Dr. Peter Lindstrom as they stepped off the plane at New York's Idlewild Airport, little Pia (Jenny Ann) once again faced a group of curious reporters. Could she tell them about the meeting with her mother Ingrid Bergman? "Please, she's only twelve," said her father, and proceeded to answer the questions himself. She had spent eight days with her mother in London; he had had a "cordial" meeting with...
...York, Operator von Rekowsky (a lithographer when he is not at his set) got busy. A wholesale drug supplier furnished a single vial of Varidase; it was hustled to Idlewild airport. Within six hours of the message from Oporto, the vial was on its way to London on an Israeli airlines plane; within a few more hours, a BOAC airliner set it down in Lisbon. Father Santos was waiting, hurried home with the vial in a Portuguese military plane...
...weeks had passed since Robert Vogeler stepped tense and ashen-faced from an airliner at New York's Idlewild airport, after 17 months in Hungarian Communist prisons. One day last week, the marks of his ordeal still etched in his face and voice, Vogeler stood before Washington's National Press Club, and for the first time told the full story of his imprisonment and torture...
...crossed Alaska's northern coastline just one minute off his schedule. He refueled near Fairbanks, roared east at 25,000 feet across Canada, munching a roast beef sandwich between gulps of oxygen. Nine hours later, he set his Mustang down on the runway at New York's Idlewild airport. He was the first man ever to fly solo across the hazardous North Pole route in a single-engined plane...
...passenger plane took off for New York, carrying Don Mauricio, his wife and nobody else. "What money won't do!" gasped one of the stranded passengers. Thirty-nine hundred miles and 12½ hours later, Hochschild's DC-6 touched down at New York's Idlewild airport, having just about shattered all known records for a private charter flight. Though Panagra declined to talk about the feat, the gossip was that Hochschild had shelled out some $40,000-at $1,500 an hour...