Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twin-engine Cessna 310 carrying House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, 58, vanished in Alaska three weeks ago somewhere between Anchorage and Juneau. Since then, military and civilian planes have spent more than 2,700 hours scanning the chilly waters of Prince William Sound or swinging northeastward through the rugged elevations of the Chugach and Talkeeta mountains. As of last week, hope was all but gone for Boggs, Alaska Democratic Congressman Nick Begich and two other men aboard...
CONSTRUCTION BEGAN WITH the sinking of mammoth caissons, filled with compressed air so workers could breathe and water couldn't get in, inside, workers dredged up the river bottom till they came to solid rock. Then the caissons were filled with cement and the bridge's twin granite towers piled upon them...
...progress toward equalization will require more new housing in acquiring property for new dorms Harvard faces twin problems--money and community dissatisfaction in the last analysis they resolve into the single problem of money Cambridge faced with burgeoning expenses because of paternalistic spending, wants more tax money. Any property which Harvard buys is eliminated from the tax rolls because the University is tax-exempt, and the city loses money. Whether Harvard should be so conscious of its supposed social responsibility is beside the point. In the current situation acquisition of property has a higher real cost than before because Cambridge...
ARECENT PROPOSAL is to raze Bertram Hall in the Radcliffe Quad to make room for a twin of Mather House. This suggestion does incorporate the two desires for economy in construction and building only on property already owned. But unfortunately it ignores the aesthetic integrity of the Quad, which would be violated by such a cement monstrosity. No one bid the old field house at Radcliffe a tearful farewell when it came down for Currier House, but Currier was designed tastefully of brick and it was outside the Quad anyway. True, Bertram Hall is old and decrepit, and renovation...
...Twin Falls, Idaho, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew attended a cocktail party for the men he has often used as foils: the reporters who cover him. Relaxed, smiling and exchanging wisecracks, he accepted the gag gift of a policeman's whistle from newsmen. That night, as he was heckled at the College of Southern Idaho, Agnew suddenly blew a piercing blast with his new toy and shouted: "Wrong!" The startled audience gasped, then broke into loud applause...