Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vigorous Fight. Despite his twin resignations, Pike is still technically a member of the hierarchy as a "resigned" bishop, and he intends to fight the charges vigorously. Undeterred by Pike's withdrawal from active office, Louttit still intends to put his case before the House of Bishops. But other Episcopal leaders are worried about the disastrous effect of a heresy hearing on the church's image and the bitter internal conflicts it would create. They are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get Louttit to abandon his demand for a trial...
...REFLEX CAMERAS. The single-lens reflex camera, the most popular machine among amateurs, was displayed in many new varieties. Zeiss unveiled its $500 single-lens Contarex Electronic with an electronically controlled shutter, and the $100 Icarex 126 equipped to use easy-loading Kodapak film. Rollei, which made the first twin-lens reflex in 1929, came out with the single-lens SL66 with a tilting lens plane that improves depth of field focusing...
Birthday gifts came streaming into the dusty, desertside capital of Gaberones. From Britain, $40 million for famine relief and economic development. From the United Nations, $15 million for livestock feeding, community development and an anti-tsetse-fly campaign. From the U.S., a $70,000 twin-engined Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back...
Bonnie's potential troubles stemmed from the fact that her one working kidney had been donated by her brother. And because he was not an identical twin, she had been taking large doses of powerful drugs (Imuran and Prednisone) to keep her system from rejecting the "foreign" organ. "Those drugs are not too much unlike thalidomide," explained Bonnie's urologist, Dr. Joseph Kaufman. Even though the transplanted kidney continued to work well all through Bonnie's pregnancy-a difficult period even for healthy kidneys-the drugs' toxicity might well have done irreparable damage to her unborn...
...leader in the other league didn't look so good last night, either. The Orioles dropped two games to Minnesota. 10-7 and 8-2. The Birds' two winningest pitchers--Dave McNally and rookie JHim Palmer--were the twin Twin victims...