Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't. Irreverently, he snapped off two stiff lefts, spun Cassius around, and landed a thumping afterthought on the back of his head. Angry now, Cassius retaliated, exhausting his repertory in a flurry of incredibly swift punches that were enough to win him the round but not immortality. The boos followed him back to his corner...
...Atlanta, Toledo and Detroit, with further tests planned for Cincinnati and Milwaukee this week. Called Telcon, the gimmick was developed in Austria and licensed to a Toledo company. It works on the same mysterious principle that causes the eye to see color if a black-and-white top is spun. It is not an attempt to compete with regular color TV, since it produces only a few colored lines that have no relationship to the color of the images on the screen, but the process seems to have some potential as an advertising device to attract the eye. When...
Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of what may be spun off as a separate series on C. S. Forester's British naval hero Horatio Hornblower, filmed in England...
...cars snarled around the circuit, hitting close to 150 m.p.h. on the straightaways, sliding boldly through the narrow turns. For some, the pace proved too fast. Clem Proctor's Pontiac hit an oil slick and leaped a 3½-ft.-high guardrail. Jim Paschal's Plymouth spun out of control, turned four somersaults and plunged over a steep embankment. Incredibly, neither driver was badly hurt. Streaking through Riverside's tricky S-curves in third gear at more than 100 m.p.h., Gurney grabbed the lead on the 43rd lap. Over the next 142 laps, until he finally flashed...
Unaccustomed to that sort of guerrilla warfare, the British retreated in some order. They still keep their position in Zeckendorf Property Corp., an affiliate that they insisted be spun off from Webb & Knapp in 1961, where they are joint partners with Webb & Knapp with 47.5% each (the remaining sliver belongs to Alcoa). Zeckendorf Property has under way 13 promising urban development projects, including Manhattan's Lincoln Towers, and Zeckendorf plans to continue linking up with partners to build mw development projects-but to keep ouTsiders out of Webb & Knapp. He hopes that assiduous real estate trading can keep...