Word: spin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pedrick first attacked a major problem for both duffers and professionals. Unless the face of the golf club meets the ball absolutely perpendicular to the intended line of flight, the ball will either hook off to one side of the fairway or slice to the other. Sent into a spin by a glancing blow from the club, the ball acts like an airfoil; higher pressure develops on the side spinning in the direction of forward motion and pushes the ball toward the opposite side...
...Pocket. The solution, Pedrick decided, was to find a way to keep the ball from going into its spin-even if it is imperfectly hit. His proposed club would do just that. Its secret: an array of tiny retractable blades jutting out from the club's metal face and imbedded in a soft elastic material (see diagram). Whenever the club made contact with the ball, some of the blades would retract, forming a small, temporary pocket. The pocket, in effect, would grip the ball and reduce its tendency to spin-regardless of the angle at which the golfer whacked...
...duffer who, despite the trick club, still managed to send off his shots with a spin, Pedrick dreamed up another gimmick: a golf ball with "wings." The wings, actually six tiny metal flaps, would be held tightly against the ball's outer surface by magnets implanted beneath them. But if the ball began spinning, the flaps would be flipped out by centrifugal force and act as an air brake, retarding the spin...
Stein not only resisted the temptation to put The Dreyfus Fund into the performance game, but publicly warned that the game could lead the stock market into a spin. He also questioned the fashion for conglomerates long before the stock market marked them down. Despite such foresight. The Dreyfus Fund has not escaped the ravages of the bear market. Direct comparisons between mutual funds and stock market averages are hard to make because the funds include the value of reinvested dividends, while the averages do not. By these varying measures. The Dreyfus Fund declined last year but still did better...
Eros and Violence. During the first of these interruptions, West wrote a capitalist Candide called A Cool Million (1934). Political in intent, the book puts a cute left spin on the old Horatio Alger story and burlesques the American Dream as a horribly funny fascist nightmare. West was never a Communist but in 1935 his radical sympathies were strengthened by the experience of being down and out on the seamy side of Hollywood. Supported by S.J. Perelman, who had married his sister, West lived in the Pa-Va-Sed, a scabby little apartment hotel in the lower depths of movieland...