Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What are you living for!" the playboy bellows, and drags him off for a spin in his sports car. The young man tries to resist but he cannot; the energy, the zest of the older man sweep him along like a leaf in a gale. Eighty, ninety, a hundred miles an hour and, mamma mia! no hands on the wheel! Two girls appear in a convertible; the playboy gives chase. The police roar after him; he flashes a government pass. Gas, cigarettes, food; the playboy orders but his companion pays. The young man objects to being used...
...rocket engine in the tail boomed the experimental NF-104A jet Starfighter up to 90,000 ft. and the edge of space. Then disaster. The craft went into a flat spin and plummeted out of control. In the cockpit, Air Force Colonel Charles (Chuck) Yeager, 40, first man to fly faster than sound and currently C.O. of the Edwards test-pilot school, stayed with the violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side...
Anything for a pal, and so George ("Bullets") Durgom hopped on a golf cart to spin around the Paramount lot with Jackie Gleason, 47, last June. Awaaaay they went, recalled Gleason's former manager, in a suit he just filed. The only problem was that Gleason was "intoxicated from excessive use of alcoholic beverages," was thus "an incompetent and unfit driver of golf carts." At last, after careening all over, the cart overturned. Bullets (150 Ibs.) fell on the ground; the Great One (290 Ibs.) and the golf cart (500 Ibs.) fell on Bullets. This resulted in "severe...
...jobs as it courses toward ignition. First, it is pumped through an outer jacket where it cools the thrust chamber's fierce 6,000° heat, and in the process vaporizes itself for ultimate burning. But before it reaches the chamber, the gas is expanding fast enough to spin an auxiliary turbine, which pumps more fuel and oxidizer into the cooling jacket. Thus the LH2 practically lifts itself by its own bootstraps...
...Television and those Petticoated Hillbillies, Lucys and Andy Griffiths are the fundamental money spin ners. The second national Nielsen report came out last week, demonstrating that CBS was still the national champ-for the 56th week...