Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years. A Cleveland coal broker, Richard Downing, paid $50,000 for the colt at a yearling sale in 1963, turned him over to Trainer Ervin, who was on the verge of retiring after more than 5,500 victories on the track. Ervin took the budding pacer for a spin, and changed his plans...
Because 75% to 80% of all convictions for serious crimes are based on presumably voluntary confessions, police and prosecutors have been in a tail spin ever since. And because the Supreme Court has yet to clarify Escobedo with any new decision, some 27 lower courts have groped for the right interpretation. Last year the Illinois Supreme Court took the "hard" approach in People v. Hartgraves. It said that a confession is admissible even though the police do not advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence. Last January the California Supreme Court took the "soft" approach in People...
...Indianapolis 500 was still two weeks away. But a good round 150,000 fans were on hand to watch in disbelief as a little-known rookie named Mario Andretti rolled out for his first qualification spin in a rear-engined Brawner-Ford and blasted around the Speedway at a fantastic 159.4 m.p.h. That demolished the lap record set last year by Scotland's Jimmy Clark. So Clark squeezed into his own Lotus-Ford and got his record back with a clocking of 160.9 m.p.h. He held it only as long as it took A. J. Foyt to warm...
...importation soon after of New Haven's Edward Logue as Development Director. Faced with the nation;s highest real estate tax ($101 for every $1000 assessed valuation) and a tax base that declined in the 1950's, they sought, in President Pusey's words, "to give a new spin to the Hub." Together--Collins pacifying, convincing, gently forcing; and Logue pushing, sometimes so hard and with so little grace that critics have come to regard him as a tin-horn Robert Moses--they formed an alliance for progress with Boston's major business and civic leaders--Charles Coolidge, president...
...Spinning the Wheels. In 1941, Royster was commissioned in the Navy, served in the Atlantic and the South' Pacific, where baffled brass mistook his name for some kind of code. At war's end, he became the Journal's Washington bureau chief, later moved to New York to write editorials for which he won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for "warmth, simplicity and understanding of the basic outlook of the American people." He was named editor in 1958 and put in charge of the editorial page. Though he still sets policy, he writes few editorials nowadays. Instead...