Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denim jacket over his pinstripe suit and tie, John Glenn Jr. sat behind the controls of his ivory and red, twin-engine Beechcraft, ready to take off for a regular weekend of campaigning. It was 7 o'clock on a recent Friday morning, and today the candidate would head for Ohio, then loop all the way back to the northern tip of Maine. Glenn does not like to start his days so early. He is a man of endless patience, but overscheduling Glenn, aides know well, is one of the very few things that cause his temper to blow...
...Craighead, perhaps the foremost authorities on the grizzly, insist that the answer is for the Park Service to drop its "forever wild" doctrine, at least as far as bears are concerned. In the early 1970s, at the height of their quarrel with the federal authorities, the 66-year-old twin brothers angrily quit their grizzly studies in Yellowstone. Says John: "It's fine to say that you want a pristine, pre-Columbian setting, but it won't work in Yellowstone [which had 2.4 million visitors last year]. Man is a definite part of the ecology and must...
...futile. The new pacifism is not the practice of a crackpot cult. It represents a strongly felt, but almost invisible current of contemporary American thought. Invisible, because its most serious manifestation is not the antinuclear movement, which is neither particularly new (it is as old as its twin, the Bomb) nor necessarily pacifist, since one need not be a pacifist to oppose the suicide that is nuclear war. Apart from the question of unilateralism, a belief less in pacifism than in the safety of surrender, the only real debate on nuclear war is about how to prevent it. When...
Should Navy lose one or more to Cornell, Harvard will win the EIBL crown. Otherwise, the two teams will meet at a neutral site to determine the champion. The second game of Harvard's April 17 twin bill at Navy ended in a tie because of darkness, but league rules state that a tie cannot play a part in determining the champion...
...teams now have four losses or fewer, with 12-3-1 Harvard a game up in the loss column on second-place Navy (11-4-1) and third-place Dartmouth (8-4). Harvard plays a doubleheader at Dartmouth Saturday, while Navy battles Cornell and Dartmouth hosts Brown in Sunday twin bills...