Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings of $9,900,000 in 1952 to $95,200,000 in 1960. The implication seemed clear: With all that money, why should not TV-under FCC guidance-spend a lot more for public service programs...
Long before Brookhaven's scientists started to trap neutrinos, other scientists spun far-ranging theories about the little particles. Neutrinos may be small and shy, says Chinese-born Dr. Hong-Yee Chiu of Yale, but they are vastly important. At last week's Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society, Physicist Chiu explained that neutrinos may well be the basic stuff of the universe...
Died. James Spencer Love, 65, wiry, tireless chairman of Burlington Industries, which he personally spun from a shoestring into the world's biggest textile maker (1961 sales: $866 million); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a Harvard math professor, Love returned from World War I at 23 with a major's oak leaves and $3,000 in savings, persuaded industry-hungry North Carolinians to bankroll his first textile mill; he pioneered in synthetics and over the years borrowed heavily to buy dozens of companies, often at bargain-basement prices...
...Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana) and scores of zanily imaginative TV shows. He had one of the world's most staggering cigar bills ($13,000 a year), and a $600,000 Los Angeles house equipped with an indoor waterfall and an asphalt driveway turntable that spun cars around to head them back to the street...
...Little Booze. At 3, the revolving door spun like a roulette wheel and in tumbled the mob. At 3:15 the bar was jammed three, four, five, six deep, and the noise was like a rocket's roar. It was just like the old days. "Lemme hear them tills ring!" Toots yelled. To his eleven-year-old son Rory, Shor called "C'm on, little Toots! Drink up! Have a little booze!" A young Roman Catholic priest entered diffidently, and Shor bounded over to him to greet him with a hug and a kiss. It was "Father Bill...