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...studies of abstract shapes, entwined like dancers, he produced a climactic picture (see color). It is a jigsaw of figures tumbling, hurtling, plummeting, yet all interlocked. As the eye examines them, they seem to begin to whirl, as if Léger had painted them on a pinwheel...
...quarterfinals, gyrating like a pinwheel, the Missouri Missile trounced Britain's Bobby Wilson, who earlier had upset top-seeded Neale Eraser of Australia. Said a shaken Wilson: "I have never played such a fantastically fast man." In the semifinals, McKinley overwhelmed Britain's Mike Sangster 6-4, 6-4, 8-6, thus becoming the first American to gain the finals since Tony Trabert...
...have been able to probe deeper and deeper through the Milky Way toward the galaxy's center. Recently, Dutch Astronomers G. W. Rougoor and J. H. Oort of Leiden Observatory reported that they had been able to peer into the mysterious nucleus itself. They found there a strange pinwheel of rapidly spinning hydrogen...
...Fiery Pinwheel. Behind these out-streaming clouds Rougoor and Oort found a ring of hydrogen about 300 light-years wide and encircling the galaxy's center at a distance of 1,600 lightyears. It appears to be revolving at a good clip (600,000 m.p.h.). Inside it is a band of almost empty space; then comes a rotating disk of hydrogen whose density increases toward the center. Neither ring nor disk appears to be moving outward. They are like the solid part of a fireworks pinwheel, which spins rapidly and throws off spirals of sparks...
...Pinwheel Aurora. Now the volcano roared: one-armed Danny Inouye. victor with more than 111,000 votes-the most ever accorded any Hawaiian-rushed joyously into the Honolulu streets, kicked off his shoes and danced, and lit up a chain of firecrackers in the traditional Chinese celebration of good luck. At Bill Quinn's headquarters on Kapiolani Boulevard, campaign workers broke out the soda pop and Primo beer, as a four-piece, aloha-shirted band hammered out Latin tunes with a fierce beat. With each bulletin feeding new totals into Quinn's narrow plurality, came still more excitement...