Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Bernt Gulbrand Morterud, 101, Norwegian-born Chicago cabinetmaker, whose identical twin, Gulbrand, still lives on in Norway-a record of longevity, defying 1 billion to 1 odds; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Chicago...
Last week Meteorologist David Johnson of the U.S. Weather Bureau told how Tiros' twin TV cameras, riding 400 miles up, saw things no one had noticed before-and gave a new dimension to the not-so-precise science of meteorology. Until Tiros, the story of what happens overhead had been a matter of educated guesswork, a smattering of facts well-larded with interpolation. Only a few areas (Europe, parts of the U.S., Japan) have tight networks of weather observation posts, and even these can only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects...
...turning point came with the emergence of the contrasting twin giants: John Gielgud, whose melodious, grief-numbed Hamlet was this generation's finest, and Laurence Olivier, whose body English makes him Shakespeare's Angry Young Man, forever Hotspur, whether he is a sinuously satanic Richard III, a black-as-thunder Macbeth, or a plangent patriot King, Henry V. Not far behind these triumphs are Maurice Evans' sterling-silver-tongued Richard II, Ralph Richardson's roguishly intelligent Falstaff and Michael Redgrave's mettlesome, love-ravished Antony. They are the leaders of today's functional Shakespeare...
...ability to replace diseased or worn-out human organs. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of doctors from Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital described the first successful attempt to graft a man with a kidney from somebody other than an identical twin. The patient is alive and healthy after 18 months-long enough to suggest that he has a chance of living a near-normal life. Led by Dr. John P. Merrill, the doctors succeeded by subjecting the patient to what they call "heroic measures": an almost killing dose of radiation. They...
...that the mammalian body (like all animals' from amphibians up) will reject, attack and eventually destroy any invading material from another individualn.* In experiments with dogs, and in the few attempts on humans, this "rejection reaction" has invariably killed the graft. Only in the case of identical twins, who are in effect the same person biochemically, have grafts of skin or organs been completely successful. Since 1954 the Harvard-Brigham team has performed eleven successful kidney transplants between identical twins. But in 17 other cases where they tried to get the same result outside the identical-twin relationship...