Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and local representatives volley after volley of handbooks, bulletins, press releases, charts, schedules, visceral warnings and soul-stirring exhortations. Said one broadside: "We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis born of the twin evils of racism and deprivation." The march organizers listed the demands that the parade would symbolize. Among them: 1) passage of the Kennedy Administration's civil rights legislative package-"without compromise or filibuster"; 2) integration of all public schools by the end of this year; 3) a federal program...
...million or more miles away from the earth -but such tests "would involve years of preparation, plus several months to a year of actual execution, and they could cost hundreds of millions of dollars per successful experiment." Anyway, he said, the U.S. plans to launch within two months twin satellites under the Vela-Hotel program (TiME, Aug. 9). These space-snooping detectors are designed to spot unshielded nuclear blasts 200 million miles away from the earth...
Born. To John Struthers, 46, $46.50-a-week factory worker in Sydney, Australia, and Janette Struthers, 44: a twin boy and girl, their fifth set of twins; bringing their family to 14 children. Said Struthers to his children as he came back from the hospital: "Mummy's done it again...
Johnson Motors has also recognized Al's championship calibre by supplying him with a beautiful twin rig for his practice...
...after another, U.S. airlines are ordering jets from European planemakers. Last week it was Pan American, which placed a hefty order for 160 French Dassault ten-passenger Mystere 20s at $775,000 each. Pan Am plans to sell (and maybe lease) the twin-engined executive jets to corporations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada. The purchase is one more blow to U.S. airframe makers, who are feeling the in creasing pressure of aggressive competition from European planemakers...