Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCulloch's twin-boom J-2 gyroplane can virtually duplicate the performance of a helicopter. It can make a jump takeoff, cruise at 120 m.p.h., maintain altitude at a forward speed of only 30 m.p.h. and settle gently to a spot landing. Should its engine fail in flight, the gyroplane can float safely to earth under its whirling rotor, much like a Cracker Jack toy. It cannot, however, match the helicopter's unique feat of hovering motionless in midair...
Died. Benjamin Harrison Dirksen, 73, the Senator's older brother, who stayed in Illinois with Ev's twin brother, Thomas, to help run the family bakery; of a heart attack; in Pekin...
...School. At the initiative of the Headmistress, a Swede, the pupils had undertaken to teach illiterates in the area. It is as unlikely that present programs will wipe out illiteracy in the rest of the world, as that these girls will alphabetize Tanzania. The projects are driving home the twin lesson of the failures of the last 15 years--the magnitude of the problems and the magnitude of the resources that will have to be devoted to their solution...
...Twin Double Cross? Word of the decision trickled out by early afternoon as the National Governors' Conference was gathering in Washington. Romney made it official by reading a 387-word statement to reporters when he arrived in the capital. Perhaps because of the relief he felt after a long ordeal, he performed more gracefully than he had on most occasions during his 102 days of declared candidacy and during the earlier buildup. He candidly admitted failure to attract the support he needed, blamed no one for his troubles. He timed his announcement when he did, he said, because...
...took wing like a fallout of finches. Barry Goldwater I-told-you-so-ed: "Romney was nothing more than a stalking-horse for Rockefeller." Some seers deduced that Rockefeller had stabbed Romney the previous week by admitting that he would accept a draft. Others whispered that it was a twin double cross: Romney quitting early enough to wreck Rockefeller's timetable in retaliation for Rockefeller's supposed duplicity. No one, of course, could substantiate anything, and the speculation was subsiding as the shock wore...