Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
Last November, in the strangest congressional election of the year, Clem Miller again got a majority of the votes-four weeks after he had been killed in the crash of a twin-engined plane on Chaparral Mountain near Eureka. California law prohibits any change in the ballot within 40 days of an election, so the Democrats were unable to replace Miller. They kept on campaigning, argued that by electing Miller posthumously and forcing a later special election, the voters could keep the Republican candidate from winning by default. "The people are entitled to an election with a choice of candidates...
...world's greatest surgeons, who had repeatedly refused to separate Chang and Eng in life, had probably been right. Without X rays or other modern diagnostic aids, they could not be sure of how much of the twins' vital organs projected into their unifying band. But the autopsy disclosed that only a small part of Eng's liver projected into the attachment to his twin. If a bold surgeon had arrived in time after Chang's death, he probably could have saved...
Albertson, 46, last week landed his Mohawk Airlines' twin-engined Convair smoothly and watched his 21 passengers debark. Then Albertson strolled to the terminal building-where he fell dead of a heart attack. His passengers could only count their blessings-and wonder what would have happened if Albertson had been stricken a few minutes earlier...
...Italian twin sweater set makes a lovely gift and a good buy. For $18 it includes a short sleeved, full-fashioned sweater plus a long-sleeved cardigan in fine wool knit...