Word: take-off
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...Jupiter take-off from Cape Canaveral last week was routine. The fat, 60-ft. IRBM rose from its pad, climbed through thin clouds, curved toward the southeast and vanished among the stars. No one was surprised; of the 20 Army Jupiters fired so far, only one has failed...
...Tibet were made graphic as some 7,000 rebel refugees surged across the border into India. Many were wounded; some still carried the weapons with which they had futilely battled the Red Chinese. At Misamari, an abandoned Indian airport that was used in World War II as a take-off point for flying over the Hump into China, work is being rushed on a refugee camp, a hospital and maternity station. Unlike the Hungarian refugees, who were easily absorbed in Western countries, Tibetans may have serious difficulty adjusting to any society more complex than their own, and are ill-fitted...
...dances are all imaginatively conceived if not always admirably executed. The brightest spot in the performance comes late in the third act when a waiter (Philip Burnham) announces "Pepe and Lolita with the Tango," and tall Wes Thum and the petite Elizabeth Theiler run through an hilarious take-off on the "tragic" dance routine...
What caused the Big Three to make up their minds was the take-off of Rambler sales in 1958. Belatedly, Detroit's Big Three (and little Studebaker-Packard) saw that there was a big market for the kind of car they themselves could make in the U.S. Dubbed a "compact" car to distinguish it from the tiny imports, the Rambler had offered the economy and easy handling of the foreign car plus much of the comfort, power and durability...
...presented in the original Greek, Kenneth J. Reckford, instructor in the Classics, who is directing the play, expressed particular concern to make it interesting for those who cannot understand the Greek. Socrates will be portrayed as "a professor at his worst," and The Clouds will be treated as "a take-off on the idea of a University...