Word: twin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nineteen passengers, including five Americans, and three crewmen stepped out unharmed when the twin-engine C-46 landed at Miami International Airport. The hijackers were grabbed by U.S. border patrolmen...
...small, twin-engined plane had apparently been flying low, and investigators guessed that the distinguished passenger in the copilot's seat must have ordered the pilot to do so because he wanted to get a closer look at the coffee plantations he owned in the area. The plane never reached its destination. Two days later a search party found its wreckage-and with it the body of the distinguished passenger: Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic...
...From Twin or Fetus. This "autograft" principle was the basis of U.S. efforts to arrest leukemia. A four-year-old girl in Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., was near death, and anti-leukemia drugs would no longer give any relief. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas told an American Cancer Society seminar at Excelsior Springs, Mo. how he then placed the child between two cobalt "bombs" (equivalent to 2,000,000-volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from...
Because only one in about 200 people has an identical twin to serve as donor, Dr. Thomas has tried injecting another child leukemia victim with marrow cells taken from a fetus in a therapeutic abortion. (Fetal cells rarely trigger the antibody reaction.) It is too early, he said, to judge results in this case...
...twin hearings in Seattle and Juneau last week, a Senate Commerce subcommittee stewed over the biggest economic problem of the nation's 49th state. The great salmon fisheries, which normally bring 41% of Alaska's $146 million annual civilian income, are on the verge of destruction. In the past 23 years, the pack has slipped from 8,500,000 cases to 3,000,000 cases in 1958. This year the outlook is for a bare 1,800,000, the lowest level since the canneries started keeping records...