Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twin Typewriters. As synchronized as a pair of cheerleaders, the two sisters interview together, write together, talk together. They also think together: one often finishes a sentence the other has begun. Bonnie, the better penman, takes notes, but back home they compose in concert, peeking over each other's shoulder, pecking out the week's advice. When pressed for time, they resort to twin typewriters, each girl doing her part. This month they are going to Houston to find out how the astronauts stay in such rosy shape. And in the fall they hope to start a television...
...artists from 17 nations, including ten from behind the Iron Curtain, and two from the U.S. Each artist is limited to a single work, with the exception of Henri Matisse, who is considered one of the pioneers of the renaissance of European tapestry and is represented by twin tapestries, inspired by a visit to Tahiti, called Polynesia: The Sea and The Sky. Poland commissioned five original designs, considered by many the most interesting tapestries in the show because of their crude, rough-woven finish of thick wool sometimes interlaced with straw. Also highly praised was the Japanese technique of Tsuzure...
...ground, Russia exulted. A Moscow postman's wife gave birth to twin sons and promptly named them Pavel and Andrian. From each capsule, cameras transmitted onto Soviet TV screens what the Russians said were live pictures of the spacemen, who demonstrated weightlessness to the viewers by floating pencils and other objects before the camera lenses...
...operating with the same rocket booster used in Vostok I and Vostok II, which is capable of lifting a 14,000-lb. payload. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, agreed, suggesting that while the Soviet booster was capable of such propaganda space spectaculars as the twin shoot, it was far too small for moon exploration...
After 14 nations signed the Geneva accord establishing Laotian neutrality last month. Red Prince Souphanouvong promised to release the U.S. prisoners held by his Communist Pathet Lao. Last week five gaunt and bearded men stumbled off a twin-engined Soviet plane at Vientiane's Wattay airport. They had been imprisoned for 15 months or more - and looked...