Word: twin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made its maiden flight on Dec. 17, 1935. All told, Douglas Aircraft built more than 10,000 of the planes. Forty years later no fewer than 3,000 of them are still flying as far afield as Burma, Canada and some parts of the U.S. A twin-engine work horse that flew coast to coast in an unheard-of 15 hours in the late 1930s, the DC-3 was the first American aircraft to turn a profit from passengers only. It was also the first to offer heated cabins, soundproofing and power brakes...
...other a United Air Lines jet, passed within 300 ft. of each other as both were heading for Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. There were other close calls in the Chicago area that day. Shortly before the two big jets avoided disaster, a twin-engine Cessna en route to a small field north of O'Hare crossed in front of a North Central Airways turboprop. Later, a privately owned Jet Commander descended through the path of another TWA aircraft...
...twin acts of violence were not the first signs of South Moluccan anger. Just before a 1970 visit to The Netherlands by Indonesia's President Suharto, they attacked the Indonesian embassy in The Hague, killing a Dutch policeman. Last week's kidnapings came two days before the Dutch Appeals Court was to rule on prison sentences handed 16 South Moluccans who were implicated in a plot last April to kidnap Queen Juliana and other members of the Royal Family. They planned to storm the palace at Soestdijk after ramming the gates with an armored...
Died. Ross McWhirter, 50, master of trivia, which he collected with his identical twin Norris in their Guinness Book of World Records, a compilation of every conceivable record, and holder of one in its own right as the alltime best-selling copyrighted book; after being gunned down at his doorstep following his public offer of a $100,000 reward for the apprehension of I.R.A. killers; in London...
...additional spark to this spirited free-for-all pitted freshman Elsbeth Farmer of the Radcliffe squad opposite her identical twin Sarah, who swims for Yale...