Word: yo-yo
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...birds rush at each other in the air. Quick as a wink, one of them is gone. Swallowed. A single yellow feather drifts down to settle on the moss. I laugh, delighted by the purity of it." In a familiar childhood rite, he discovers the intricate magic of a yo-yo that he has bought from two Oriental itinerant salesmen, and learns the various movements-"walking the dog," "loop the loops" and a dazzling number called "the universe...
...been near the top in offensive statistics for so long now that it is easy to forget that only last year the Crimson offense packed about as much wallop as orange pop. The transformation has been so stunning that the undergraduates who last fall were spinning "Yo-Yo must go" yo-yos are now speaking possessively of the Lambert Trophy...
...troops leave once they have done their job, Asians may need some time to get accustomed to an American presence and protection based on mobility from afar-and hence largely invisible. Some Pentagon planners foresee a transition period in Asia that will be marked by a sort of Yo-Yo strategy. In times of tension, there could be U.S. maneuvers and training exercises that would dispatch men and planes to friendly Southeast Asian fields, pull the patrolling Seventh Fleet into allied ports. Then, as the tension subsided, the G.I.s would be pulled back to the U.S., the ships...
Displaying the precise control of a teen-ager over a spinning Yo-Yo, controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory maneuvered Orbiter ever closer to the moon's surface in an attempt to eliminate the fuzziness of its high-resolution camera shots (TIME, Aug. 26). Acting after a suggestion from Eastman Kodak technicians that the camera might begin returning clear pictures of possible astronaut landing sites if it were operated from an altitude of 25 miles, they fired Orbiter's retrorocket for three seconds, reducing the low point of its orbit from...
...negotiations by demanding that the new paper run his personal column. "Oddly enough," says a top executive involved in the negotiations, "the biggest obstacle to merger is the personalities and pride of the very top men. It's a question of who wants to give up his Yo-Yo...