Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever future space explorers may find, a couple of California scientists have already decided that the big planet Jupiter and the little planet Earth have at least one thing in common: each is girdled by a strong magnetic field, a rare phenomenon anywhere in the solar system. Using the twin, 90-ft. radio telescopes at California Institute of Technology's Owens Valley Observatory. Research Fellow David Morris and Graduate Student G. L. Berge have estimated the strength of Jupiter's mighty magnetism...
...Stop? Mme. Piccard was understandably startled by her husband's easy acquiescence. All through the 1920s Auguste had taught mechanical engineering at the University of Brussels, but his first love was always the free-ballooning he did with his twin brother Jean. After years of practice in conventional balloons, the tall, scrawny professor with his outlandish head of wispy white hair, designed his own gasbag, his own spherical, airtight gondola, squeezed into the risky contraption one morning in 1931 and climbed 51,775 ft. over Augsburg, Bavaria-almost two miles higher than any airplane had yet flown. Just...
...India, Jackie rode a 35-year-old elephant named Bibi, shrank against Prime Minister Nehru in ladylike horror while watching a mongoose battle a cobra (see cut), saw a polo match and cleared jumps on a horse. Before she left, Air-India presented her with twin tiger cubs: the problem of what to do with them was solved when they died...
...suburbs," says New York's Mayor Wagner. "Many people are moving back to town." To attract them, Chicago is planning the construction of 50,000 new dwelling units in the heart of the city by 1980, has already cast at least one spectacular lure: the 65-story, twin-towered Marina City, with pie-wedge apartments and balconies with a fine view of the lake. Los Angeles has reversed its historic trend to single homes, is now building more apartments than houses...
...Plastic Twin. Updike is a delver into himself, much in the manner of Proust. Most of his protagonists in this collection are really the same thin, brooding young man. although they are given different names. Clearly they are different ages of a fabricated Updike, the kind of plastic twin brother that Proustians invent when they want to probe their own insides without disturbing the machinery. The trouble is that Author Updike does not really seem interested in exploring time and soul, but merely in finding some minimal core to be crusted with his magnificent words. This dedicated 29-year...