Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adult rate. Says Adman Frederick Bruns: "The priceless thing is repetition. You've got to get to a kid three to five times a week to get him to act on a message." Video Boy acts by nagging his parents to get him a "Blasto-tank-with-twin-rocket -launchers -by -Slambang -Toys." Once he gets it, though, he is invariably disappointed because the toy is always much smaller and much less exciting than it looked on the overdramatized commercial. Thus Video Boy learns a basic lesson of TV viewing: distrust...
...second-tallest (1,107 ft.) building, after Manhattan's Empire State Building (102 stories and 1,250 ft.). Last week beneath the street level of Lower Manhattan, workmen were pouring 3-ft.-thick concrete foundations for the future champ, the Port of New York Authority's twin, 110-story World Trade Center towers (1,350 ft. high...
...Curle's twin preoccupations with violence and underdevelopment are drawing him more and more into the problems of America's urban ghettos. Currently teaching African history one day a week in Patrick-Campbell Junior High School--one of Roxbury's worst schools--Curle is increasingly struck with the parallels between the underdeveloped world and what he now calls "the underdeveloped parts of the developed world...
...flashed to the assigned units, whether Air Force planes based in Thailand, Marine planes south of the DMZ or Navy fighter-bombers floating on carriers in the South China Sea. To follow the course of the actual missions, Momyer moves to the plotting room for Operation Rolling Thunder (a twin room plots the tactical air strikes in South Viet Nam). There, sitting in a glass "cab" in the center, he is surrounded by 23 maps and charts that rise seven feet from the floor. Any area Momyer is interested in lights up when he presses on the glass face...
After 27 years and three wars, there wouldn't seem to have been any surprises left for Bob Hope, 64, in his Christmas tours for the troops. So they loaded him into a twin-engined C-2A "Cod" and fired him off the catapult of the carrier Ranger (acceleration from zero to 120 m.p.h. in three seconds), whomping him down on the nearby Coral Sea with the aid of an arresting hook. Hope came away laughing, but just barely. "I haven't felt a hook like that since vaudeville," he told 2,500 gleeful sailors. "I think...