Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida ever leaves a time capsule for future generations, it will probably be filled with losing pari-mutuel tick ets. SEE YOU AT TROPICAL PARK-EXCITING TWIN DOUBLE, read roadside billboards. DOG RACING HOLLYWOOD KENNEL CLUB TONIGHT. There is no state income tax and no funded debt; almost five percent of the annual state budget is financed by revenues from gambling. Florida boasts four horse tracks and more dog tracks (17) than any other state. What's more, it is the only place in the U.S. that permits pari-mutuel betting on human beings...
...Russia's air and space spectaculars. The latest edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft lists only one new Soviet plane for 1962-a high-altitude reconnaissance plane like the U2. Jane's also suggested that Russia's His and Her space-twin flights "failed to achieve all their objectives, which may have included orbital rendezvous," pointed out that the Russians, in addition, lost contact with their rocket probe of Mars...
...bigger, and their bathtubs with them. More and more common are 51-ft. tubs with 16-in. sides (instead of 14 in.) and the demand for 6-ft. tubs is further threatening the national water table. The other trend-female emancipation-is making itself felt in a fad for twin installations. Double sinks are sprouting everywhere, enabling tooth-brushing, face splashing and shaving to take place side by side without strain on a marriage; and a design contest in Rome awarded first prize to an arrangement of twin tubs with a shower that swivels between them...
...ashen. He said later that he had once worried constantly about kidnapers, but that he hadn't thought about it for years because his children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm stopped him again ("You couldn't see the hood of the car," said the driver...
...taken so seriously," said Ludwig Erhard in a speech at Heidelberg University. "There will be no quarrel among friends." In Paris, France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said that there was no question of "France's determination to pursue European unification in the twin economic and political spheres." And yet with De Gaulle in the picture, one could never be sure. There was an uncomfortable memory of Christmas past: about a year ago, weighing London's application for Common Market membership, De Gaulle was getting ready for his decision to leave the British...