Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important man: Arturo Espaillat, now New York consul general for the Dominican Republic. Around the first of March Murphy quit his job, saying he had got a high-paying charter proposition. The records show that on March 5 he arranged to rent (for $800) a twin-engined Beechcraft, registered as N 68100, at the Linden, N.J. airport. At a field on nearby Staten Island, he had it fitted to carry extra gasoline tanks. On March 12 at 9:44 a.m., he took off from Newark Airport, announcing his destination as Miami. But at 10:30 a.m. he landed at Zahns...
...Cologne's Architect Wilhelm Riphahn, 67, solved the problem of cramped space in a bombed-out lot close to Cologne's twin-spired cathedral by erecting a structure shaped approximately like an Aztec pyramid. The massive, $3,800,000 Cologne Opera House, due to open this May, devotes two-thirds of its interior space to the stage and storage areas (five stage settings can be erected at one time), seats 1,386 in the horseshoe orchestra floor and ring of bobsled-shaped boxes...
Joseph Steyskal, 38, was arraigned before a U.S. Commissioner in Twin Fall, Ida., for violation of the federal extortion statute by sending Pusey a threatening letter through the mails, the F.B.I. said...
...Midair Collision!" Twenty-five minutes after Carr's DC-7B took off from Santa Monica, Northrop Test Pilot Ronald E. Owen, 36, swished skyward from an airport some 50 miles to the northeast, near the desert community of Palmdale, in an F89 Scorpion twin jet interceptor. The Scorpion, equipped with new radar, was soon to be returned to the Air Force. Owen and Radarman Curtiss A. Adams, 27, were flying a final chore: three runs at another jet 25,000 ft. up, to test the ingenious radar mechanism that puts the interceptor on the trail of invading aircraft, fixes...
...offered. One is, do away with the presidency altogether and let everybody fight on equal ground. Thinking back on the club's presidents in recent years, this doesn't seem a bad idea at all. The other is, elect both major contenders, and have them rule like the twin consuls of Rome. This way, everybody wins. Difficulties over policy may arise, but it will be hard for the club to become more ineffectual than...