Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profitable was the lavish emporium of slot machines, roulette, and blackjack tables that the original outlay of $600 by its owners, a thrifty family of Vermonters named Smith, paid off $16,675,000 when they sold last week to a Manhattan syndicate. Still spinning the club's wheel of chance as manager: Harold S. Smith, son of the founder and author of an autobiography aptly titled I Want to Quit Winners...
...voyages farther toward the stars, and faster across the face of his own earth, the instruments by which he steers become vastly more important. And on planes or ships or spacecraft, the heart of the steering mechanism is a fast-spinning wheel called a gyroscope. These little wheels do their jobs because they try to point steadily in a fixed direction, and so they sense any turning motion of the vehicle that carries them. But conventional gyroscopes present a continuing problem. Because of friction in the bearings of their spinning wheels, they tend to drift slowly away from the proper...
...buff for Playboy, Hollywood Starlet Jill St. John, 21, tried terribly hard to keep up with her auto-racing husband, Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 26, only issue of Barbara Hutton's six marriages. Lance's bride even rode a motorcycle to get the feel of a wheel, but when it hit 25 m.p.h., Jill came tumbling after. Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property. Definitely not for her: the 1961 Porsche, Mercedes 3005L, 1936 Rolls-Royce, slinky Scarab racer and Cadillac hearse (for toting...
...upset our basic price stability." Accordingly, "honest assessment plainly requires a more sophisticated view than the old and automatic cliche that deficits automatically bring inflation." Confidence. "Finally, I come to the problem of confidence." In this instance, the myth is that "any and all unfavorable turns of the speculative wheel" result from "lack of confidence in the national Administration." That notion, Kennedy-argued, is false. "Corporate plans are not based on a political confidence in party leaders but on an economic confidence in the nation's ability to invest and produce and consume." Such myths, said the President...
...months after rescuers hacksawed him, battered and bloody, out of the unrecognizable wreckage of a pale green Lotus at England's Goodwood International Grand Prix, Auto Racer Stirling Moss, 32, was talking about getting back behind the wheel. In pajamas and striped dressing gown, the durable daredevil sat in a wheelchair at London's Atkinson Morley's Hospital, joshing the "head-shrinkers" who were putting him through tests, flirting with nurses and telling friends, "I'll be teaching you the twist soon." Doctors no longer feared paralysis from brain damage, but they said it would...