Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75.

Not even Saarinen's TWA terminal draws richer spatial textures out of architecture's circulatory systems.

December 29, 1975 - A bomb explodes in the baggage claim area of the TWA terminal at LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 and injuring 74.

But in the TWA terminal, at taxi stands outside the International Arrivals Terminal and elsewhere at Kennedy yesterday, people seemed pleased to know that any improvement in public transportation to the airport was being planned.

The terminal, designed by Welton Becket and Associates and John Replogle, was inspired by the TWA terminal at JFK.

Roger the Dodger was striding toward them inside the streamlined, crimson and blue TWA terminal.

Not since Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal has reinforced concrete been given such a lift.

BARBARA Lirrlejohn had waited outside the TWA terminal only a minute before a cab arrived.

The design will remind some of the procession through Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport.

On the contrary, the commission has led the way in protecting the later 20th-century landmarks, beginning in the early 1980's with the designation of Lever House, the Seagram's Building and the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport.