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...loin cloth, and to hear the latest medical bulletins. This time, however, a jarring note sounded. A small crowd of unsympathetic Hindus and Sikhs began to shout: "Let Gandhi die!" From an automobile lunged Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who is India's Johnny-on-the-spot as Fiorello LaGuardia was Manhattan's. Cried Nehru: "How dare you say that? Kill me first!" Nehru chased the dissidents down the street. Inside, Gandhi dozed...
...Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead too), and no money for a railroad ticket because the local bank vault was operated by electricity...
Although the Authority had never run an airport, its reputation is such that New York City, five months ago, was glad to give it a lease on money-losing LaGuardia field and on New York International (Idlewild) field, which has proved a financial headache to the city. Last week, Newark turned over Newark Airport to the Authority on a rental basis that looked fine beside the $139,825 Newark had lost on its field last year. (Newark will get a minimum rental of $100,000 a year for 50 years...
...pattern for New York's Metropolitan area. The Authority firmly believes that the solution to air congestion is not merely bigger airports but a number of airports which split up the traffic. As a start, the low-traffic Newark port will handle 52 of the flights now using LaGuardia every day. Eventually, the Authority hopes that Newark will handle all the Metropolitan area's long-haul traffic; Idlewild, which will be opened by July, will handle transatlantic flights, and LaGuardia will be left only domestic, short-haul traffic. The Authority expects to spend...
...LaGuardia, the Authority has made a promising start. Fifty vending machines (tooth brushes, toothpaste, etc.) have been installed. To attract sightseers (at 10? a head), loudspeakers on the promenade ramp give a play-by-play explanation of operations. On one Sunday, some 13,000 people watched the show...