Word: take-off
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...days when they were fellow convicts in the Florida State Prison at Raiford, had been visiting her husband in Tampa. Two days later in the mail she got a $37,500 air-travel insurance policy taken out by Al Taylor (divorced but still friendly) at Tampa Airport just before take-off time of the doomed DC-7B. Taylor was missing, although he was not listed on the plane's manifest...
...students vowed to prevent Kishi's take-off for the U.S., and 700 of them seized the airport building the night before his departure last week, wrecked the restaurant and fought the police with bamboo spears and pepper shakers before they were ejected. Mobs of students lined the approaches to the airfield, prepared to stone Kishi's car or throw themselves under its wheels. But with radio guidance supplied by a hovering helicopter, Kishi's motorcade avoided what he called the "distasteful, insignificant demonstration," and he serenely took off for his meeting with President Eisenhower...
...towering (6 ft. 5¼ in., 190 Ibs.) Negro carefully stepped off 23 foot-lengths to the left of the standard, turned left for 23 more, and marked the spot with tape. Then John Thomas, 18-year-old freshman at Boston University, made seven loping passes before choosing a take-off spot 16 in. out from...
...stands at the Knights of Columbus meet in Boston, fans peered for any lingering signs of Thomas' accident last year, when he caught his left take-off foot in an elevator and was put out of action a bare month after setting the world record of 7 ft. 1¼ in. But John Thomas looked as good as ever as he took off from his left, kicked high with his right foot, belly-rolled over the bar, and easily worked...
Died. Rosetta Duncan, 58, comic member of the rollicking vaudeville sister team (with Vivian) that did a famed take-off on Uncle Tom's Cabin called Topsy and Eva, popularized some of the classic songs of the '20s (Bye, Bye Blackbird; Side by Side); after an auto accident; in Chicago...