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With the exception of a tenth-class nonsked air fare from Idlewild to Ice land, he has paid for nothing-singing instead for his supper, breakfast, lunch, transportation and lodging. There should be 400 of him. A one-man Peace Corps, he has replaced the ancient vices of the troubadours with glistening virtues. He is a lanky, 6-ft. 4-in., clean-cut, blue-jeaned, All-American youth tying the world together with a one-man thread...
...tarpaulin titled Untitled (57) by Lee Bontecou, 32. Combining symbolic materials on one hand and symbolic shapes on the other, Untitled (57) might well express the history of flight: the canvas wings and tenuous struts of Kitty Hawk are molded into the soaring pinions and howling jet nacelles of Idlewild. Bontecou, who looks as if she might have just stepped down from a Dutch Boy paint poster, is not so sure what it all means. "If I could say it, I'd write it down, but it's not like that," she says. "It's all back...
Looking more like Great Danes with manes, a trio of hip-high horses arrived at Idlewild Airport from Argentina. They were bound for the McLean, Va.. home of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy as a Christmas surprise for their seven children and Ethel's relatives. Hearing about the horses, and feeling an urge to expand the Kennedy menagerie (present occupants: four dogs, 20 rabbits, one guinea pig, one donkey), Ethel shot off an order to Argentine Breeder Julio Falabella. who claims that his herd of 350 is unique. Sturdy enough to saddle up and ride, the midget horses have...
...Human Element. The Idlewild crash was the seventh in a week, and it caused an increase in the already considerable amount of talk and argument about air safety...
Writing for Airlift magazine, Bechtold recently complained that the Federal Aviation Agency has ignored pilot recommendations for new landing aids at Idlewild. "Our margins," he wrote prophetically, "are woefully thin now." Bechtold had often criticized Idlewild's facilities...