Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Hickey led the Huskle pack, as he blazed to one of three cage records set Saturday, breaking the tape in 2:12. The distance events saw Northeastern throw double trouble at Harvard as twin brothers Bob and Jon Flora paired up to gain a dual victory. Bob ran away with the mile in 4.10.9 time and Jon won the two-mile event...
Security was all but impenetrable last week at the luxurious Penina Golf Hotel in the seaside resort of Alvor on southern Portugal's Algarve coast. A 600-man police and army cordon ringed the building; commandos with Alsatian dogs on short leads guarded the surrounding twin golf courses; armed troops set up checkpoints on all roads within a 20-mile radius; a navy frigate lay anchored in the bay, and frogmen patrolled the water. Within this bastion, delegates from the three major liberation movements met for six days with Portuguese government delegates and worked out a plan...
...Force says it chose the YF-16 over Northrop's twin-engine design because it will cost less ($4.6 million per plane, v. $5 million) and offers "significant" advantages in performance; in 300 hours of testing, the YF-16 prototypes proved to be more agile at the Mach 2 speeds at which the planes were designed to fly. But General Dynamics also showed a shrewd appreciation of Pentagon pride and politics. To power the YF-16, the company chose the same Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines used in the Air Force's costly ($12 million) but cherished new McDonnell...
Abroad, the Air Force order appears to put the YF-16 well in the lead in a three-way race with the Northrop plane and France's Dassault Mirage F1-M53 for the consortium's business. Because they believe in the reliability of a twin-engine plane, the Dutch, the Danes and the Norwegians were leaning toward Northrop's YF-17. But they have said that if they buy an American fighter, they would probably choose the same one as the U.S. Air Force. Reason: unit costs would be lower. They are expected to announce a decision...
...Midland (pop. 63,000), which serves as the white-collar headquarters town for the oil companies operating in the area, are a multimillion-dollar 14-story office tower and that symbol of a successful city, a Hilton hotel. A half-hour's drive away is Midland's twin city, Odessa, a blue-collar town built around a sprawl of refineries and oil-well service and supply firms. There the boom is reflected not in the skyline but in the HELP WANTED notices outside the machine shops and the POWDER ROOM signs inside them. Skilled labor is so short...