Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Army & Oil. In the space of barely four years, the twin dynamos of nationalist rebellion and oil discovery have produced a button-busting boom that no city in metropolitan France can match. Since 1956, population has doubled, is now approaching 1,000,000. The first whiff of prosperity came when France increased its Algerian army first to 200,000, then to 500,000 men to fight the F.L.N. rebels. Most of the new troops were reservists drawing far higher pay than the ordinary conscript rate, and produced unheard-of business for Algiers' bars, restaurants and shops. And with...
...facing a crisis in both the quantity and quality of its medical care. The twin problems are a shortage of man power and a drop in its caliber. The questions are multiple. Where will tomorrow's doctors come from? Where will they be trained? How good will they be? What sort of medicine will they practice - coldly scientific or warmly human...
...Bridge. Kazantzakis' basic notion that man creates God in his own evolving image-the theory that God is essentially the search for God-may appeal to humanists and troubled skeptics, will antagonize the religious. Philosophically, the Greek writer's twin deities were Bergson (with whom he studied) and Nietzsche. From Bergson he borrowed the idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style...
Triton is the first nuclear submarine designed for the submarine's classic role of scouting. Her job is to roam out on the surface hundreds of miles ahead of naval task forces, scanning the skies with powerful radar. She carries the biggest crew (about 150), and, powered by twin reactors, can dive faster and cruise farther than any of her nuclear sisters...
...only plane that came was a twin-engine Piper Apache piloted by a U.S. adventurer whom U.S. authorities had been trying to get the goods on since last year. The pilot was Matthew Edward Duke, 45, ex-Navy flyer and ex-husband of Melody Thomson, 35, blonde heiress to a $3,000,000 tobacco fortune. In 1947, Duke hit the skids, got picked up on bad-check charges, then turned to the dangerous game of flying anti-Castro Cubans to U.S. exile...