Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delays on the ground while a mechanic replaced a faulty electrical relay, a standard item on any jet transport. Then Test Pilot Brien Wygle gunned the plane down a mere 3,200 ft. of runway and climbed swiftly into the sky above Boeing Field near Seattle. Boeing's twin-engine 737 was making its late-starting entry in the race to sell short-haul jets to the world's airlines...
...That leaves among the Republican potentials the uncle of Percy's son-in-law-Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, whose nephew John D. Rockefeller IV two weeks ago married Percy's daughter, Sharon, the twin sister of Valerie. At 58, Rocky seems more at ease, more confident and more attractive than ever. When the presidential campaign is mentioned, he murmurs, "No, no. Not me." He says he will have his name withdrawn from any primary in which it is entered. He has made no move to round up delegates...
...majored in journalism, was also a football fan, a moviegoer, and had ambitions toward the theater. In October 1965, he enlisted in the Army; before he went to Viet Nam last September, he sent a form letter to 100 of his friends, telling where he was headed. After his twin brother, mother and father got home from a European vacation, Jacobs began a gargantuan literary task: he wrote some 300 letters to his family, more to his Stateside friends, telling what the war was like and what it was about. Because of his interests and talents, Specialist Fourth Class Jacobs...
Earlier this month, a TWA DC-9 on a proper IFR approach to the Dayton airport collided with a twin-engine Beechcraft being flown under VFR on a bright, cloudless day. All 25 aboard the jet and the pilot of the private plane died. A few days later, an American Airlines jet flying IFR toward Newark Airport narrowly missed a small plane flying VFR in the same area...
...into commercial jet transports; the DC-8 lagged a year behind Boeing's profit-laden 707?and Douglas has yet to break even on the venture. After Donald Jr., now 49, took over the presidency, the company grossly underestimated both the demand and costs for its 90-plus passenger, twin-jet DC-9. Labor and parts shortages snarled production lines, and as a result Douglas lost at least $600,000 on each DC-9 it delivered last year, ended 1966 some $27 million in the red. That process nearly exhausted the patience of the eight banks that were providing...