Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pioneer of such buildings was Manhattan's United Nations Plaza, a twin-tower 38-story building, which should be complete some time this summer. The first six floors are office space, the rest luxury cooperative apartments ranging from $25,900 for 3½ rooms to $166,000 for a nine-room duplex. Apartment owners are given options on small offices within the building, plus an exclusive key that will open the door between the segregated office and apartment lobbies...
...Manhattan's proposed World Trade Center, whose 1,350-ft. twin towers will be tallest of all, is still stalled by litigation and is not scheduled for completion until 1970 at the earliest...
...Super VC 10 has some radical innovations for a plane its size. It mounts its four engines aft on twin pods attached to the fuselage, much like the smaller two-engine French Caravelle and three-engine Boeing medium-range 727. This design leaves its swept-back wingspan uncluttered, permits slower landing speeds, shorter takeoffs and more dependable lift. For the passengers, there is more comfort: more leg room, improved air conditioning and a considerably quieter ride...
...defense is solid and experienced. Captain Fred Gates' combination of stick-handling and speed earned him a spot on the All-Ivy second squad. He and varsity football end Dan Calderwood will be the twin pillars of the most reliable line on the team...
While working on the Homage, Soyer was constantly worried that he might fail. He jotted in his progress notes: "Will I be able to capture the tremor in the temples of Jack Levine's portrait, the anxious face of Moses [Soyer's twin brother], or the aura of aloneness about Edward Hopper?" In the end, he largely succeeded, but says Soyer: "The secret of doing big group paintings has been lost. Portraits painted today are fragmentary, personal, capricious, nervous, tentative, incomplete, accidental, at times full of inaccuracies. But they are fascinating-revealing of the artist more than...