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...everything inside and spin the sphere," he explains, "how different it is! Centrifugal force places all objects in their right sequence by density: solids, liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...
...Pittsburgh kid who won the crown two years ago. He had also prepared for Wildwood's fast rings by doing most of his marble-shooting on an asphalt tennis court near his home on Winterburn Avenue. His secret: "Just roll it into the ring and put a little spin on it, that...
...perfected. Best known is the familiar turbojet. A compressor draws air through the engine's nose. Burning fuel heats and expands it. The hot blast roars out the tail at over 1,000 miles an hour, giving a mighty push. Before the gases reach the open, they spin a turbine, which powers the compressor...
...Tail Spin. Waco Aircraft Co., of Troy, Ohio, famed light-plane builder, joined the long list of manufacturers who have abandoned plans for making personal planes. It discontinued work on its four-place Aristocraft, blamed increased costs for its "reluctant decision." Waco will build trailers, stay out of the airplane field until "suitable" designs can be found...
...which had long closed its ears to the small talk, big commercials and occasional records of the jockeys, had signed famed Jazzman Paul Whiteman for an hour spin five days a week. Mutual last week opposed him with an older spinster: Martin Block. From his four sponsors, Whiteman will gross $208,000 a year; Block will get $312,000, plus a couple of hundred thousand more from Manhattan's WNEW and Los Angeles' KFWB (altogether, disc jockeying's top dollar...