Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India in the early 1960s as president of a four-plane freight airline. Suavely posing as an American millionaire, he won a contract from Air-India to haul freight between landlocked Afghanistan and Indian rail centers. Traveling freely throughout India, Walcott often made short hops in his twin-engine Piper Apache until one day in 1962, when police checked the plane and found a crate that everyone had assumed contained spare parts for one of Walcott's laid-up DC-4s. Instead police found 10,000 rounds of 12-gauge ammunition, an item that fetches six times...
...past exploits were hardly enough to save the company. What did save it was a new plane, whose basic design Bob Gross conceived while lingering over coffee one morning in the lobby of Burbank's Union Air Terminal. The plane was Lockheed's Electra 10, a twin-engine, all-metal, ten-passenger ship with the highest load/gross-weight ratio and the lowest price ($36,000) of any comparable aircraft of its time. The Electra 10 sold solidly to U.S. airlines as well as to carriers in Latin America and eight European countries (Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich...
Behind these prime contractors, scores of specialists ranging from Aerojet-General (rocket fuel) to United Aircraft (jet engines) are pursuing prosperity with a diversity of projects. Nine allied countries fly Northrop Corp.'s hot twin-jet F-5 fighter, and the company is developing deep ocean bases for the Navy, building three broadcasting stations in Ethiopia, and teaching budgetary accounting to the Nicaraguan government. Comsat has just placed a $35 million order for 24 satellites with Cleveland-based TRW Inc. Martin Marietta last month won the first production contract, for $12,085,430, for the Walleye glide bomb...
...mystery is compounded rather than made clear by the fact that he has a nonidentical twin brother-Waldo, a thin, superior fellow who spends 50 years working in public libraries around Sydney. Waldo is the intellectual type, so superior in fact that he does not deign to confide his thoughts to anyone, least of all to his dim twin. The thoughts, anyhow, are nothing much, but when Waldo retires, he will maybe get around to collating notes for his novel-Tiresias as a Youngish Man-which he keeps in mum's old dress box. Tiresias was the shaman...
...North Viet Nam has increased markedly; some 6,000 men have slipped across the border in the past month. Military intelligence in Saigon reported two 10,000-man Communist divisions -one of crack North Vietnamese regulars, the other a veteran Viet Cong outfit-massed in central Viet Nam, readying twin assaults in the highlands and near the sea. Allied units were also poised for a major offensive. They were reinforced last week by 7,000 more American troops, swelling the total U.S. force in Viet Nam to 191,000. The fighting to come may well be the most savage...