Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan's King Hussein was off at last on his long-planned three-week vacation in Europe. With the man who taught him to fly, R.A.F. Wing Commander Jock Dalgleish, beside him as copilot, the young King flew his twin-engined de Havilland Dove, with the royal Hashemite standard painted on its stabilizer, humming high above the Syrian desert at a modest 160 m.p.h. Suddenly the Damascus radio crackled a warning that the plane had no overflight clearance, demanded the identity of its crew and passengers. The King refused and turned the controls over to Dalgleish, defying an airport...
...Tracerlab, Inc. of Waltham, Mass, has developed the first film badge to record quarterly as well as weekly radiation readings from the more than 300,000 Americans (dentists, radiologists, X-ray technicians, etc.) whose work exposes them to radiation. Thirteen times more sensitive than present weekly film badges, Twin-film Service reduces the risk of overexposure...
...then there's the story that President Lowell used to tell about the man who sent his twin sons off to college--one to Harvard, the other to Yale--in order to tell them apart. The Yalie was elected president of his class and varsity football captain, and became a member of Skull and Bones. The other half of the set had a beard by the end of his freshman year, narrowed his circle of friends to four people, and graduated summa. And after graduation, they still couldn't tell them apart
First, according to Graves's reading of the Hebron chronicle, comes No. 5-not God discovering a hiding Adam and Eve, but a man named Agenor finding his twin brother Belus making love to a girl named Hebe. The fig-leaf episode (No. 4) is the surprised lovers guiltily covering their nakedness, during which Hebe falls for Agenor, and in No. 3 is advised by the Serpent Death to give Belus an apple from the Serpent's tree. The apple drugs Belus into unconsciousness (No. 2), whereupon Hebe tells Agenor to finish his brother off, which he does...
Unlike Atlas, whose three engines ignite on the ground, Titan is a two-stage missile, resembling a Brobdingnagian rifle cartridge. About 130 seconds up-where Atlas sloughs off its twin booster engines -Titan sheds its first stage, 53 ft. of 10-ft.-thick shell and both booster engines. Thus unburdened, the 37-ft. second stage is expected to reach out beyond 9,500 statute miles-3,000 miles farther than Atlas-to deliver a massive warhead weighing better than three tons...