Word: take-off
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...Soup. Last week a TIME correspondent watched a 6-47 squadron at Upper Heyford, England get ready for a routine day's work. (The squadron had recently flown from Limestone Air Force Base in Maine to England in 4 hr. and 37 min.) First, on the day before take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew...
Glass, director of aviation for the Port of New York Authority, which operates Teterboro Airport. Citing airport witnesses, Glass told the Civil Aeronautics Administration that on take-off Godfrey gained an altitude of 20 to 30 feet, then made an abrupt left turn, narrowly missed three planes that were warming up on the taxiway, skimmed over a hangar, and thundered directly toward an 87-ft. control tower, whose occupants fled for their lives...
...Godfrey's year, urged that he "take a long rest." Ed Sullivan of the News reported that the Teterboro control tower had immediately called Godfrey to ask if his plane was out of control, and Godfrey had flippantly replied: "No, that's just a normal Teterboro take-off." The Mirror's Nick Kenny came valiantly, if ineptly, to Godfrey's defense. Kenny vaguely hinted that there was still another conspiracy, this time by "the proCommunists who do too much of the hiring & firing in radio and TV and haven't been able to touch Godfrey...
...week the official high-jumping world rocked to word that a relatively little (5 ft. 9 in.) Texan at the University of Illinois, using a new technique, had cleared 7 ft. The trouble with the news, from the standpoint of the orthodox: 1) instead of using the conventional running take-off from one foot, Jumper Dick Browning takes off from both feet; 2) instead of rolling over the bar on his side, he goes over in a backward somersault. To make matters worse, Browning is not a trackman at all, but a member of the Illinois tumbling squad...
...makes Eddie run: the dynamo that sends through his audiences a crackle of sympathetic electricity. As a result, the spectator is always conscious that Brasselle is trying to be like Cantor, and cannot decide which performer to be embarrassed for. Besides which, 116 minutes is too long for any take-off to take...