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Massive Tangle. The first took place last June, just three days before he was to enter prison. Soblen made his way to Idlewild Airport, boarded a plane and, using a dead brother's Canadian passport, flew to Israel. He was arrested in Tel Aviv for entering the country illegally, expelled from Israel without a court hearing, and bundled aboard an El Al jet to New York via London. Just before the jet touched down at London Airport. Soblen stabbed himself in the wrist and stomach; on landing, he was hurried off to nearby Hillingdon Hospital for emergency treatment...
...encompasses all of New York City, from Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx to the farms of Staten Island and east to the runways of Idlewild airport. All year long, every working day, its mobile crew zips around the city in an anxious effort to keep the weekly, hourlong show supplied with finished films. The city police usually cooperate closely, but the two detectives simply had not been told that Naked City would be in the neighborhood that...
Three weeks later, just as perfunctorily, health officers at New York's Idlewild International Airport took the certificates at face value. They gave Missionary Orr a card on which was written: "As a precaution against introduction of smallpox: If you should develop suspicious symptoms of illness (such as chills, fever, weakness, loss of appetite, diarrhea) within the next seven to sixteen days, present this card promptly to a private physician or to health officers in your community. This is required by law." The word smallpox was in large letters. Orr pocketed the card and promptly forgot...
...Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos airport for hours before he flew, with 82 other travelers, on a Comet 4 jet to Idlewild...
...From Idlewild the Orrs taxied to Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal (the driver tried to overcharge them). In the busy, navelike waiting room, with its constant turnover of travelers, Jimmy Orr lay on a bench for almost seven hours sweating out a train for Toronto. While his family went to a nearby lunch counter for a snack, a motherly Negro tried to make the boy more comfortable. Then the five Orrs boarded the North Star, and sat up all night as the coach made seemingly unlimited stops. As they neared Toronto, Jimmy opened his shirt, looked at the itching...