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...last week with an Eastern Air Lines DC-7 bound from Charlotte, N.C., to New York's Idlewild airport. Idlewild was blanketed by dense fog, and the plane circled above the field for 30 minutes before it got clearance to make an instrument landing. Just as it was touching down, it veered to the right. A wingtip struck the ground, and the eerie, fog-shrouded night came ablaze. Emergency crews were on the spot within minutes, festooning the wreckage with fire-extinguishing foam. Of 46 passengers and five crew members, 26 survived-and 25 died...
Funny Business. For the present, at least, New Yorkers are most aware of their fair in terms of the bumper-to-bumper embolisms the highway expansion program is causing in the borough of Queens. Travelers taxiing into the city from La Guardia and Idlewild airports are sometimes dumfounded to find a full-fledged traffic jam of early bird commuters at 6 a.m. But fair officials seem confident that when the new network of roads is in operation, their facilities will be able to handle a traffic-jamless 36,000 people an hour coming...
Headquarters City. New York is also the major port of entry into the U.S., and Idlewild-the busiest airport in the world -has become a kind of sub-city in itself. As large as all Manhattan from 42nd Street to the Battery, Idlewild has developed a range of consumer services that include banking, dentistry, photographic studios, and a $275,000 animal motel where bears can bed down for $2.50 a day, tigers for $5, bulls for $7 and wolves...
...also hope that no blame may fall upon the U.S. Immigration officer at Idlewild who accepted the certificates of immunity. For 27 years we have traveled back and forth and never heard of "international" certificates. We and others of whom we know have used simple vaccination certificates issued by public health officers...
...tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated it better than his wife." A unique marriage of roundness to function is the Pan American World Air ways terminal building at New York's Idlewild airport. A roundhouse for the jet age, its giant umbrella roof can shelter eight airliners at once as they nuzzle up to take on passengers. It successfully does away with the greatest inconvenience of modern air travel: the wearisome warrens of corridors that stretch seemingly for miles out into...