Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled kitchen with built-in rotisserie. Upstairs are another living room and eight bedrooms-including a 900-sq.-ft. master bedroom with twin dressing rooms. The place came furnished...
...from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky Liz was caught in a fast-moving storm. One of the pilots radioed for permission to climb because of icing, got it, radioed back when the plane was at 13,000 feet. Minutes later, a flash like lightning was seen in the hills southwest of Grants, N. Mex. Mike...
...negotiated a five-year Russo-Indian trade deal, helped get a slow-building but photogenic propaganda Russian steel mill for India, did a bang-up job of setting up Bulganin and Khrushchev's triumphal Indian tour, and even gave Nehru, on behalf of the Kremlin, a personal twin-engined Ilyushin plane. Said one Indian editor: "He didn't hit the headlines all the time, but he made a deep impression where it counted in the government...
Sputnik Choo-Choo. A space-age toy electric train with an airborne satellite was introduced by Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...
Blue Denim is twin-burner drama: Arthur's relations to his girl provide the plot; his relations to his family, the basic problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there...