Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-haired David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the new state of Israel in Tel Aviv, but when by the ancient spin of the old Judaic calendar the tenth anniversay of that day rolled round last week, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, still his people's straight-backed lawgiver at 71, determined that it should be celebrated in Jerusalem. And with soldiers and trumpets and dancing...
...Ferraris, Jags and Aston-Martins. In the swirling confusion, a Ferrari rode right up the rear end of a Jaguar, and both cars spun off the track. A little Stanguellini somersaulted off course and somehow landed right side up. The only serious accident saw General Motors Executive Chester Flynn spin his Ferrari out of an Sturn, tear through a barbed-wire fence and flip over twice. He was taken to a St. Petersburg hospital with a concussion, badly lacerated eye and assorted broken bones...
Lament. Amid some of their own praise for themselves ("A true disk jockey is a pretty humble man, even though it might not show through"), the spin-and-spielers set up a lament about such bosses as Host Storz, a onetime disk jockey whose four-station chain (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Mo., New Orleans, Miami) makes big profits out of relentless plugging of the "Top 40" pop tunes. They protested that this formula is turning the disk jockey into an automaton, stripping him of the "personality" that is his stock in trade...
...rich, he thinks she's rich, and it all makes a pleasant little comedy of errors until suddenly the script makes an error that is not funny in the least. It introduces an American millionaire (Arthur O'Connell) who does almost nothing for the next hour but spin the wheel of a 155-ft. yacht that used to belong to Kaiser Wilhelm II, goggle at Marlene...
Those who do see it as a faint, speeding star will notice that it does not wax and wane like the conspicuous rocket that accompanied Sputnik I. This is because its spin stabilization keeps it from tumbling. Its direction, like that of a free gyroscope, is fixed in space. As it rounds the earth, its axis points at the same distant star...