Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gate Prizes. The move made all the difference. Sports fans in Washington could not care less about baseball in a town where the political games can be so much more exciting. The Twin Cities, on the other hand, were starved for baseball. The Twins set the 1963 American League attendance record and today average 16,000 per game, the highest in the league. Encouraged by this box office bustle, Twins President Calvin Griffith has spent $6,000,000 for 65 new players, 18 of whom have found a place on the Twins alongside seven stars from Washington days...
...batch is Outfielder Tony Oliva, 24, last year's American League batting champion (.323) and Rookie of the Year. Though his average is down to .295 this season, Oliva is making more key hits, leads the league in doubles (26). He is second only to another Twin in the number of runs scored; Oliva has 60, Shortstop Ziolio Versalles...
...Force was testing a new aircraft-a snappy little twin-engined Helio Courier light plane-and naturally, there was only one pilot for the job. Grinning broadly,. Air, Force General René Barrientos, 46, the more equal of Bolivia's two co-Presidents, strapped himself into the pilot's seat and roared off into the blue. After buzzing over La Paz, Barrientos flitted for about 30 minutes around the jagged 21,325-ft. peak of nearby Mount Illimani, then pushed the shuddering plane to 21,425 ft., setting a new altitude mark for that type of aircraft...
...BANG! BRA-BANG! goes Ursula Andress, 29. And in about as fast a transition as anyone's emotions are ever likely to undergo, the hapless fellow is dead-gunned down by the twin pistols hidden in the girl's brassière. Playing a Jane Bond out to earn her diploma in legal killing from the Central World Government circa 2000 A.D., Ursula straps on the sexshooter and goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying to figure...
...launch was a solid success - a good, clean lift-off galvanized by 2.4 million Ibs. of thrust from twin solid-fuel boosters. The Titan IIIC resembled three huge bullet-nosed flashlights standing side by side. The 127-ft. center rocket was a souped-up version of the liquid-fueled Titan II that boosted Gemini astronauts on two successful shots. Strapped on to each side were two 85-ft. rockets, each one containing five 39-ton solid-fuel segments stacked one on top of the other. Within three-tenths of a second of ignition, the two solid-fuel boosters reached their...