Word: twins
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Born. To Richard Herrick, 26, first human to receive a successfully transplanted kidney (from his identical twin Ronald-TIME, Jan. 3, 1955), and Clara Burta Herrick, 27, a nurse who attended him at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital: a daughter, their first child; in Worcester, Mass. Name: Marjorie Helen. Weight...
This, alas, is more than one can say of "The Island of Dawn" by William Wertenbaker. The story is about a woman living in New York who is called to her home town in the far south for her twin sister's funeral. She is very much afraid to go, because her departure was an escape which she fears wasn't complete. Although there are occasional very convincing statements of her loneliness and fear, there is never an adequate explanation of it. Instead of being seductive, the South seems dull. What sinister undercurrent there may be is over-whelmed...
...Annie lifted off smoothly, her twin orange exhaust tails bright against the overcast. Up she shot, straight into the first cloud layer at 3,000 ft. as the shock wave, like a thousand backfires, rumbled up the beach and welled over the spectators. MacNabb roared into his headset: "She's still going! She's still going! She's out of sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines...
Streaking over California's Mojave Desert at an altitude of 39,000 ft. one ay last week, Air Force Major Adrian . Drew pushed his F-ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...
Belgium's colonial administrators walk a tightrope over the twin volcanoes of white repression and black extremism. They have given fewer civil rights to their Africans than either the British in Nigeria (due for Dominion status in 1960) to the northwest or the French in Equatorial Africa across the Congo River. They have never had the racial clashes or race hate that flame in apartheid-cursed South Africa or in British-ruled Kenya. In fact, the only rioting in recent years occurred last summer after a badly refereed soccer game between white and black teams in Leopoldville...