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Engineer who helped build iconic TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport dies

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Published Sun, Feb 19, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    ABBA Tor, whose engineering prowess helped the landmark Trans World Flight Center take wing at Kennedy International Airport - and kept it from cracking apart - died on Feb 11 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was 93.

    The cause was cardiac arrest, his daughter Shuli Tor said.

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