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...drawn to the great curve-ball controversy. How much does the ball curve-if at all? This week Dr. Briggs made his answers. The ball curves all right, and the biggest jug handle a pitcher can expect to throw is 17.5 in. Ideal curving speed: about 100 ft. per sec. Optimum amount of spin: some 1,800 r.p.m. But, Dr. Briggs adds, ''the speed of the pitched ball has little effect on the amount it curves. The important thing is the spin...
...measured the curve-throwing ability of the Washington Senators' staff in Griffith Stadium, found the best of them could break off a curve at 1,600 r.p.m. Presumably, better pitchers on other clubs could approach 1,800 r.p.m., achieve the maximum curve. As for speed, 100 ft. per sec. is well within the range of a big-league pitcher. Fastest pitch ever recorded: 144 ft. per sec. (98.6 m.p.h.) by the Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller...
...Heller's method was to set up a pulsed electromagnetic field (80-180 pulses per sec., 27 megacycles) between electrodes. When he put tiny bits of iron, carbon, silver, oil, fat, starch or mammalian cells on a glass slide between the electrodes, he found that any asymmetrical particle promptly turned so that its long axis lay along the lines of force. Groups lined up Indian-file, like iron scraps between magnetic poles. Microorganisms such as bacteria or protozoa were forced to travel in similar paths; they resumed swimming normally at random only when the power was turned...
CAPITAL SPENDING on new plant and equipment in the U.S. will hit $32 billion this year, up 4.7% from 1958, noted the Department of Commerce and the SEC...
ALEXANDER L. GUTERMA won a round in his battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission when it rescinded the ban on trading in Bon Ami, a Guterma company. The SEC continued its suspension of F. L. Jacobs, another Guterma corporation...