Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polish army, offered to let him share the profits. It was not long before the new partner and his brother-in-law were carrying bundles of the phony bills to the post office and exchanging them for 5% treasury bonds. On the trail at last, the police tailed the pair to Bojarsky's modest home in Paris, found nothing in searching it until one cop tripped on the carpet, flipping the hidden switch that opened a secret trap door. There it all was-Bojarsky's carefully constructed pulp vats and printing presses, surrounded by hundreds of bills drying...
...never tilt more than 4 min. of 1° from true vertical. After negotiating a curve and a 3° slope leading to the launch pad, the crawler successfully delivered its cargo and workmen began bolting the umbilical tower and the Saturn 5 to the pad, getting the huge pair ready to train both ground crews and astronauts. When the crawler next emerges from the assembly building with a cargo, it will be carrying a complete and checked-out Saturn 5 scheduled to be shot into sub-orbital flight early next year...
Moon Walker's agility derives from its stainless-steel tubular legs, which have hinged, almost human knees, and flat, hooflike feet with rippled soles to give them traction. The legs operate in pairs, one leg of each pair supporting the walker's weight while the other leg is in motion. They are moved by battery-operated electric motors and controlled by a four-way lever that is so sensitive a multiple-amputee child can operate it with his chin...
...story eminently suited to any pair with a theatrical flair, as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne showed when they caroused through the play on Broadway in 1940. For this film version of Shrew, the Burtons-who only recently finished shrewing their way through the movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-are being put through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story...
Though the U.S. Department of Commerce plans to test a pair of turbotrains between Boston and Providence starting next January, Canadian National will be the first road to put them into regular service. To be built by United Aircraft's Canadian subsidiary and the Montreal Locomotive Works, the first of the seven-car turbotrains should be on the tracks in time for Canada's Centennial next April...