Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competing for the consortium's order. They were SEPECAT's (a British-French joint company) Jaguar, Saab-Scania's Viggen from Sweden, France's Mirage F1/M53 made by Dassault-Brequet, and two U.S. products: General Dynamics' single-engine YF-16 and Northrop's twin-engine YF-17, nicknamed the Cobra...
Died. Moses Soyer, 74, Russian-born painter given largely to creating moody, sympathetic portraits in a traditional romantic-realistic style; in Manhattan. Soyer, whose twin brother Raphael and younger brother Isaac are also artists, came to the U.S. with his family when he was twelve. He received much of his early formal art training on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where rough-hewn street people served as his models. A diminutive man with large gentle eyes, Soyer was well known for his portrait of Fellow Artist Jack Levine and for The Green Room, a painting of three women...
...separated from her second husband, works for the Rockefeller Family Fund in Manhattan. Mary, 36, divorced from her first husband, is married to Thomas Morgan, onetime press secretary to former New York City Mayor John Lindsay and now assistant to the publisher of New York magazine. Mary's twin brother Michael disappeared at sea on an anthropological trip to New Guinea in 1961. When his catamaran capsized, he attempted to swim to shore and was never seen again...
Just like other Americans, U.S. churchmen have been shaken by the twin terrors of inflation and stock market losses. But the losses are rarely as calamitous as those sustained by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno and the Massachusetts-based province of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette...
...Ridder papers include such varied properties as the Journal of Commerce, a useful if pork-belly plain compendium of business news; Colorado's folksy Boulder Daily Camera (circ. 22,380); and the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, which occasionally outshines its bigger Twin City sisters. In general, however, the Ridder papers do not have the heft and influence of the Knight dailies. Though the Knight brothers are both conservatives, the papers are what Hills describes as "central progressive." In the 1972 election six Knight papers endorsed Richard Nixon and two backed George McGovern; only two echoed John Knight...