Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twin pressures of hunger and desire are increasing throughout Latin America, making the land reform the No. 1 issue. Panama wisely began an integrated plan of land development in 1956; Venezuela, starting in 1959. has already moved 30,000 new farm families onto 2,500,000 acres under President Romulo Betancourt's crash program. Brazil's Janio Quadros and Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo are pushing comprehensive reform and agrarian-development laws through their Congress...
...Russians also unveiled a twin-jet flying boat (the U.S. experimented with one, wrote it off as of little strategic value), a new three-tailed helicopter with jet-driven blades, and a huge conventional helicopter carrying a small house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging...
...becomes Chrysler's Valiant, gets only a few physical changes: an end to the simulated rear spare "donut" wheel, wider bands of chrome and round, flush taillights instead of the canted, protruding ones of 1961. Dodge's Lancer now has a horizontal, convex grille surrounding its dual twin headlights. The big change in the Chryslers and Imperials is loss of the big, sweeping tailfins...
...Mary, the wife, is, as her brother Pink observes, "the most vulnerable thing on two legs." Since her husband has in effect withdrawn from her, she and Brother Pink live in a private world, have a private vocabulary and are as sensitive to each other's moods as twin fawns...
...Generally pleased by the local landscape and skyline, Cunliffe mourns only over the new twin towers of Leverett House, finding them "incongruous as black teeth in an otherwise ideal smile...