Finding the Times In Offramp City.

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  • Author(s): Gold, Herbert
  • Source:
    New Republic. 2/8/75, Vol. 172 Issue 6, p11-15. 5p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      NEW York (N.Y.) description & travel; TRAVELERS; NEWSPAPERS; TRAVEL; INTERNATIONAL airports; AIR travel
    • Abstract:
      Presents a first-person account of an American traveler who just arrived from the Middle East and has to stay at a hotel near the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, and finds it difficult to buy "The New York Times" newspaper in the neighborhood of the hotel at Offramp Road. Impression that houses in Queens look like those in Appalachia; Search for the newspaper at nearby restaurants and even at a geriatric residence; Purchase of the newspaper at the airport when he returned for his connecting flight.