Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant white flash lit the horizon, and the pencil-shaped Atlas slowly, silently lifted into the air, gaining speed, her exhausts pushing down neat twin yellow-white flames. Then, almost 8,000 ft. up, one flame trail lengthened, turned orange, mingled with ominous black smoke. The missile lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf...
Duluth Radio-TV Executive Dalton LeMasurier, 47, and his wife Dorothy, 45, were accustomed to traveling as they pleased, but this junket seemed even better than usual. Flying their own twin-engine Beechcraft, they had left Minnesota for Florida to arrange the return of their 62-ft. cabin cruiser Caprice (which they sailed south last fall), then visited a married daughter in El Paso. In Pasadena they visited their lonesome actor-son Ronald, treated him to a steak dinner. The following day they were homeward bound, leisurely droning the miles northeast across Wyoming's rugged mountains...
...seat helicopter last week eased down onto a yellow marker on the White House lawn. Correspondents duly noted the executive mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground traffic, especially to and from the National Airport...
...That Got Away. In Jupiter Cove, Fla., when Fisherman Joe Bal made a mighty cast, his hook, sinker and 150 yards of line disappeared with a tremendous roar-snagged on a twin-engine seaplane, which came over at about...
...army truck planted in the middle of the road. He stopped. Before he could turn around, another truck drove up close behind him, making any move impossible. Six soldiers with submachine guns appeared and surrounded the car. With car and officers pinned there, the Czechs briskly towed two twin-engined jets as close to the car as they could, then ran two tanks up close on the other side. Four photographers arrived. The blocking trucks were moved back, the gun-carrying guards retreated out of lens range, and the photographers then took photographs of the car against this "most studiously...