Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer, was mending in a Manhattan hospital after removal of a chronic duodenal ulcer that had plagued him for some 25 years; Driver Stirling Moss, 30, bedded in a London hospital with two broken legs, a broken nose and a crushed vertebra after cracking up in a practice spin for the Belgian Grand Prix-but promising, as befits the world's best hell-for-rubber speed merchant, that he will go "straight back to racing" when his injuries heal...
...under full steam at the Space Technology Laboratory, which will have two tries next fall at putting a satellite in orbit around the moon. Boosted away from earth by an Atlas missile and two smaller upper-stage rockets, the moon satellite will weigh 350-400 Ibs. It will be spin-stabilized by ten small rockets and will get electric power for its instruments and controls from four paddle-wheels covered with 8,800 solar cells. All this has become standard U.S. practice. What is novel about the moon orbiter is a restartable engine technique for on-course guidance...
...there a legal difference between an unarmed reconnaissance plane and an unarmed reconnaissance satellite, such as the U.S.'s Tiros? Plenty. No nation has claimed sovereignty over outer space, where satellites spin. The Soviets have not complained about the well-publicized fact that Tiros takes pictures of Soviet territory. One reason is that Soviet satellites have certainly passed over U.S. territory (though the U.S.S.R. has no picture-taking Tiros types in orbit). Thus the U.S. can make a legal argument that the U.S.S.R. has accepted satellite orbitings by "custom...
...sometimes rudimentary; the steering is so sensitive that the slightest nudge of the wheel is enough to jerk the nose around. Most important, a 125-lb., 18-h.p. go kart can match a red-hot Porsche "Spyder" in weight-to-horsepower ratio, and is just as likely to spin out on high-speed curves. After turning two laps in a go kart, Sam Hanks, winner of the 1957 Indianapolis 500, pulled up with a sigh of relief: "This is the most overpowered car I've ever driven in my life...
Goren and his TV producer bring the expert pairs into Chicago for the filming, with guarantees of $1,000 to the winning pair, $500 to the losers ($250 and $500 bonuses for small and grand slams). As Goren and TV Commentator Alex Dreier spin out a running dialogue on the bid and play from a glassed-in booth, the cameras and microphones hover over the table, picking up hands and the players' chitchat. Goren never erases his own predictions from the sound track when he is wrong, or the cardsmen's bad plays when they occur...