Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Ralston and Stolle have worked hard at improving techniques since they turned pro-Ralston has added more spin to his service, Stolle has shortened his backswing on ground strokes. Both agree that they are playing better tennis now because they are working on an above-the-table cash basis. Simply enough, says Ralston: "It's worth a lot more money to go all the way than to be eliminated before the final round...
...care more about money than modulation. But it will hardly ruffle classical buffs, who have long ago switched to dual channels. The long-term trend is unmistakable: like the 78-r.p.m. disk and the 10-in. LP before it, the mono LP appears to be headed for its final spin...
...helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne jewel thief or heroin smuggler who cannot be caught unless police spin a global...
...real reason behind most of Expo's first-week foul-ups was the magnitude of its success. No one had come even close to gauging the fair's capacity for drawing crowds. Indeed, so big and so eager were the early Expo hordes that they did not spin the turnstiles far enough to allow carbon brushes to make the contacts necessary to send electrical impulses to the computers Counting attendance. At one point, officials had to send people down to "eyeball" the entrants. Because of the tangle in counting arrivals, Air Canada had to cancel its plan...
...Four heavies -- Ron Wilson, Dick Benka, Charlie Ajootian, and Bruce Hedendal -- will put, spin, and heave in their specialties...