Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a large part of his repertory is devoted to music long since committed to his, and most listeners', memory, Von Karajan has also found leisure to become an avid sportsman, often slips off for a week of skiing in the Alps or an afternoon's spin in a rented light plane or a glider. In all these pastimes, as in music, he luxuriates in what he calls "harmony of movement"-the remarkable performance that is given without apparent effort. He has also had time to indulge a broad streak of vanity that extends from his brown suede...
...Allison aircraft engines, and throws a rough wake that is awesome indeed. "Riding behind her," says one driver, "is like a trip behind the Queen Mary." To make matters worse, Miss Pepsi's driver, Chuck Thompson, has the quaint habit of taking her for a spin ten minutes before the starting gun, a tactic that is sure to roil the course...
Musial has brightened big-league ball for 15 years. And baseball has been as good to the onetime southpaw pitcher who learned how to spin a left-handed curve on the grimy sandlots of Donora, Pa. For one thing, it kept him out of the zinc mills; even better, for the last five years the Cards have paid him $80,000 a season. Trading shrewdly on his reputation, he now owns half of a successful St. Louis restaurant (Stan Musial and Biggie's), is a bank director and has a piece of half a dozen other well-paying businesses...
...quite a trick. The "Big Spin in the Brickyard" has always been a race with disaster, and this year was no exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked...
...textiles altogether. After spreading out to a dozen different divisions (electronics to auto parts), Textron is making so much money in other businesses ($2,300,000 in 1956's first quarter) and losing so much in textiles ($404,000 in first quarter) that it will spin off Amerotron textile division into separate company, keep no interest except a few bonds...