Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British girl shows Hussein is searching for a warmth and affection he did not find in the hearts of the Jordanian people." But at week's end the Jordanian people seemed to have responded to the King's appeal for understanding. When Hussein took Toni for a spin in his open Mercedes 300, they were greeted with approving shouts and cheers...
...ground looked so far away I got lonesome." Aircraft Mechanic Tom Pearson has improved on a standard Bensen design, added a four-bladed propeller, a muffler and ground brakes-an uncommon feature on home-built helicopters. Explains Pearson: "If you haven't got brakes, you have to spin the prop, then jump in the seat quick to keep the beast from running away...
...Dahlgren, Va., tracking a mouse is easy-if it is the right breed of mouse. Their latest achievement: spotting a speck of debris from the Transit II-A satellite, launched June 22, still floating 400 miles in space. The bits and pieces have been identified as a de-spin weight, about the size of two clenched fists, dangling at the end of an 8^½ft. braided cable a little thinner than a pencil. Hardly visible to the eye at 100 yds., its electrical properties make it easily spotted by radar at 400 miles...
...Cokes in scummy luncheonettes, wondering why in the fluorescent world he can't find something better to do with his life. The sister (Lelia Goldoni), a girl about 20, falls in love with a white boy, loses him when he discovers her race, goes into a hysterical spin. The older brother, a man about 30, steadies her down, tries to straighten the boy out too, tries to get on with his career as a no-talent ballad belter. At the end, things are still pretty much as they were at the beginning...
...mentally all barbed wire. Hirsch's Scapin seems even more resourceful than Molière's, and on a stage full of antique, chattering magpies and grinning dolls and grimacing puppets, he is a kind of unpredictable mechanical toy with, at moments, shock value as well as spin...