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Musial has brightened big-league ball for 15 years. And baseball has been as good to the onetime southpaw pitcher who learned how to spin a left-handed curve on the grimy sandlots of Donora, Pa. For one thing, it kept him out of the zinc mills; even better, for the last five years the Cards have paid him $80,000 a season. Trading shrewdly on his reputation, he now owns half of a successful St. Louis restaurant (Stan Musial and Biggie's), is a bank director and has a piece of half a dozen other well-paying businesses...
...quite a trick. The "Big Spin in the Brickyard" has always been a race with disaster, and this year was no exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked...
...textiles altogether. After spreading out to a dozen different divisions (electronics to auto parts), Textron is making so much money in other businesses ($2,300,000 in 1956's first quarter) and losing so much in textiles ($404,000 in first quarter) that it will spin off Amerotron textile division into separate company, keep no interest except a few bonds...
...young pimps, pickpockets and purse snatchers of Naples are called scugnizzi, from scugnare, which means to spin like a top. Aged anywhere from six to 20, they live in the streets, watching each other with hard, wary eyes, and working whenever they can-as lookouts for burglars, messengers for black marketeers and smugglers, cigarette-butt snipers* and racketeers of all kinds. On any night there may be thousands of them on the prowl. When the police catch them redhanded, they serve a term in the reformatory, or are taken home to their parents (if any) and are back...
...first-stage rocket, carrying stages 2 and 3 and the payload satellite, will be fired due east, to take advantage of the spin of the earth (1,340 ft. per second at the launching point. Cape Canaveral, Fla.). When it burns out and separates, 36 miles above the earth on a curving trajectory, the second stage will take over. After burning out in turn, it will coast upward, still attached to stage 3, to the 300-mile level. While it coasts, its mechanical brain will be reading its numerous instruments and telling little gas-jets how to turn...