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...provide the central core (or 'infra-structure') of underworld business, capable of branching out into other lines." The underworld economy probably grew out of the Prohibition-era bootleg liquor industry, which "may have put underworld business in the U.S. in what economic developers call the 'takeoff' into self-sustained growth...
...American fashion magazine brightens the pages of Ouhlier Palerme (To Forget Palermo), the novel that last week won France's celebrated Prix Goncourt. Though a colleague claims that the author "really saw this happen in New York," Edmonde Charles-Roux herself denies that Fair is a takeoff on Vogue, which employed her for 16 years. Curiously, the French lady was fired five months ago as editor of the French edition of Vogue, not for her macabre writing but, so she says, because she had argued that "yé-yé styles" were not appropriate for French bourgeois women...
...overall picture below is the $9,300,000 U.S. pavilion, Buckminster Fuller's 187-ft. geodesic dome. In front of it, across an arm of the St. Lawrence, the Russians are lavishing $15 million on a vast exhibition hall roofed with a wing curved as if for takeoff. All exhibitors chipped in $45 million for the hexagon-sided theme pavilions ("Man and His World") at left on the far island. For the combination of an inverted-step pyramid and a truncated pylon in the picture at left, Great Britain is ignoring austerity to invest...
Interns Onstage. The new trend got its takeoff boost in 1959 when U.C.L.A. hired a professional troupe of actors and set up a theater on campus. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, a physician, explains the motivation: "What a nearby hospital means to a medical man, a theater means to a drama student." So good has this theater group become that next year it will move to Los Angeles' downtown Music Center as its permanent repertory company (and U.C.L.A. will start another group). Comparable umbilical links with professional theaters were established in succeeding years by the University of Minnesota and San Antonio...
...airlines will have enough terminal facilities for all that business is another matter. Travelers already grumble at ticketing and baggage delays, and tomorrow's jumbo jets will require vast new ground installations that municipal airport authorities seem slow to start planning. In another use of aircraft, vertical, short-takeoff-and-landing craft and a new breed of jet helicopters (which have become highly developed in the Viet Nam war) may well provide a swift new intercity bus service, flying from fields scarcely larger than tennis courts...