Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flew out of Washington at week's end in his twin-engined Aero Commander to join Mamie at their Gettysburg farm, then to play 27 holes of golf-his first 27-hole round since the day before his heart attack...
...Cairo newspapers blossomed out last week with identical figures on what Egypt is getting from Communist Czechoslovakia: 200 MIG-15 fighters, 50 IL-28 twin-jet bombers; 200 heavy tanks, six submarines and torpedo boats. Four-fifths of this equipment was said to have been delivered already. Western sources think the figures inflated, particularly the MIG total...
Test Pilot. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, finally gratifying his long-felt urge to fly, ex-Aircraft Mechanic Olimpio Martines Neto, 27, hopped in a twin-engine DC-3 at the city airport, kept it aloft for three minutes, crash-landed in a crowded suburb, walked from the wreck with nothing more serious than a rip in the seat of his pants...
Professor Fred L. Whipple, chairman of the Department and Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, is the leading figure in the meteor project. It has centered in the New Mexico desert, where meteor showers have been photographed from twin stations for many years...
...period with more emphasis on its intellectual values and the urban roots of its reform spirit. Though he is modest about the book's merits, it earned him a Pulitzer Prize for History at the age of twentyeight. Much of the book was written, a friend claims, with "one twin on each knee." Schlesinger still continues to do much of his work amid the clamor of his children, now increased to four...