Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from California ranks, they had to reach out. They also had to appeal to patriotism because the pay for out-of-town dancers was only $500 plus free room and board for three weeks of rehearsals and the show itself. It was enough to lure Anna Kuni and her twin sister Kana, who perform as the Cherry Blossoms, Redd Foxx's opening act in Las Vegas, ending up clad in top hats and tails, period. In the Coliseum they wore more. "We wanted to be part of the Olympics," said Anna, who with her sister came to this country...
...rule change, which could go into effect by next summer, would be a boon to Seattle-based Boeing and Airbus Industrie, the West European aircraft consortium. Boeing has a new 767 twin-engine airliner with enough range to cross the Atlantic, and Airbus is building a similar plane called the A310-300. Many transatlantic airlines will probably be eager to buy and fly twin-engine jets because they burn about 50% less fuel than three and four- engine models of comparable size...
Subtitled A Tale of Terror, this novel will horrify only those who believe that the gruesome should not also be funny. The macabre begins when Bob Glandier, a repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind...
Point by point, the authors of Not in Our Genes shoot down the traditional studies which confirm existing social conditions. Cyril Burt's often-quoted identical twin studies, conducted in the 1950s, supposedly proved the inhabitability of IQ. Those who would later argue for a meritocracy based on IQ--such as Arthur Jensen, in his famous and influential article on the subject in the Harvard Educational Review published in 1969--drew upon Burt's data. But Lewontin and his cohorts point out the fraudulence of Burt's evidence. Not only are there serious problems with the validity of these separated...
...long line of twin-engine C-47s began taking off at seven-second intervals from Welford shortly after 10 p.m., Eisenhower stood there watching, his hands sunk deep in his pockets. He went on watching until the last plane circled into the darkness overhead. A correspondent standing near him said the general's eyes were full of tears. That same afternoon, after he watched the first troop convoys preparing to depart, Eisenhower had scribbled a strange note for himself, a message that would be ready if everything ended in disaster: "Our landings ... have failed ... The troops, the Air and Navy...