Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hedge against Turkey's twin fears of a Communist Cyprus or of Cyprus united to Greece, Menderes and Karamanlis agreed to put a cat's cradle of strings on Cypriot independence. Barred from ever becoming part of Greece, Cyprus would probably become a member of NATO, would be allied to both Greece and Turkey and, besides maintaining its own army, would be garrisoned by a combined Greek-Turkish-Cypriot force. Britain, which has made Cyprus its main military bastion in the eastern Mediterranean, would keep its bases on the island. In securing such guarantees for the Turkish minority...
...feature head on the story and ran it. But other editors with better memories remembered the baby sitter's tale for what it was: a gnarled hoax that has been knocking around city rooms for 25 years* When the more knowing editors began to protest to A.P., Twin Cities reporters, backtracking truth to its lair, found that the trail ended with a 35-year-old suburban Minneapolis insurance agent named Fred R. Keller, who said only that he had heard the story from someone else...
...North American Aviation, Inc., $647.7 million, including F-100 and F107 fighters, the Navy's A3J twin-jet supersonic bomber, engines for the Atlas, other rocket engines...
...orange mud. Batista, in a fatal mistake, overconfidently withdrew his troops. Castro and his men lived on plantains and mangos-and waited. The first break came from Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, President of Costa Rica, 800 miles to the southwest. To a hastily cleared Sierra airstrip, Socialist Figueres sent a twin-engined Beechcraft loaded with rifles, Tommy guns, ammunition and grenades. "I felt sorry for that man," Pepe explained...
...Knolls Laboratories near Schenectady, N.Y., G.E. is designing a twin-reactor, pressurized-water system for the world's largest submarine, the U.S.S. Triton. It is building a reactor system for the Navy's first nuclear destroyer, studying a boiling-water reactor for use in a merchant ship...