Word: spin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most people attribute his success to "toughness." "Spengler's a guy who can take a lot of punishment," teammate Howie Foye said last month. Bob Seals, who often runs with Spengler early in the race until Spengler moves ahead, regularly remarks after a race about "how tough Spin...
...Perhaps an even more exciting aspect of Spengler's life is his experience with cars. In the last 18 months, he has been in three accidents. The first one was two summers ago when he put his Volkswagen through a 360-degree spin on the Mass Pike before it flipped over. He was not hurt...
...also remembers the details. First, Shaw hit a state police car stopped on the shoulder of the road, which careened him safely through the bridge. Then he hit a wooden post, knocking it 35 feet, before crossing the center strip and completing a spin...
...explained his rules for moviemaking: "When the scene is exciting, put the camera in cement. When the scene is dull, spin the camera around like a whip." Brooks would not let anyone take him seriously in any of the poses the situation demanded he assume...
...ignored nor forgotten by Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times or Jack Bass of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. Both reporters are experienced muckrakers, but in their book The Orangeburg Massacre (World; $7.95), published this week, Nelson and Bass find no heroes and no villains. In documentary prose, they spin out the entangling web of frustration, resentment and misunderstanding that began with an attempt to integrate a white bowling alley...