Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prototype of the new generation of prefab models. It is a single-story, brick-wood-steel building, low and rambling, composed of four self-contained, two-classroom units connected by an enclosed corridor of glazed glass (unnecessary in warm areas). Each 2,700-sq. ft. unit has its own twin washrooms, project area, heating plant, storage space and drinking fountains. The units can be used individually or added to as required, can be dismantled and moved to follow shifting populations. With such models, communities will be able to build for their current needs and avoid large-scale, heavily bonded construction...
HIGH above the sleepy Brazilian town of Congonhas do Campo (pop. 6,000) stands the small, twin-towered, white Church of Senhor Bom Jesus do Matosinhos. Last week the church was the goal of the great annual pilgrimage of Brazilian backlanders, as it has been each September since 1786. The Church of the Good Jesus has all the religious trappings of a shrine: founded by the Portuguese hermit Feliciano Mendes, and today a Redemptorist mission, it boasts the original cross used by the hermit and a wooden effigy of the Good Jesus renowned for winder-working properties. But only...
...border dispute (see above) is that they are currently competing with each other in an expensive jet air-power race. Last year the Peruvians asked the U.S. to sell them twelve F-86 Sabre-jet fighters. During the past ten months, Ecuador got twelve Meteor fighters and six Canberra twin-jet medium bombers from Britain. Last week came the Peruvian retort: the government announced that it had signed up for 20 of Britain's late-model Hawker Hunters...
...Hackett, a burly man with a magnificent R.A.F. mustache, regularly hops across the English Channel a dozen or more times a day. He longed for a longer ride. One sunup last week, Hackett took off from London Airport, got a course from his navigator, Peter Moneypenny, and aimed his twin-jet Canberra bomber westward. Seven hours and 30 minutes later he put down at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. While newsreel cameras whirled, Hackett and Moneypenny spent 35 minutes on the ground, getting themselves and their plane refueled. Aided by tail winds, the Canberra arrived back in London...
After two days shaking off his Washington tensions, the President left for five days at the mountain ranch of his good friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen. Ike had hoped to commute regularly by air between Denver and the ranch this summer, and had brought his twin-engined Aero Commander plane along as a taxi, but Presidential Pilot William Draper felt that the thin mountain air and the sudden thunderstorms made flying too risky, so Ike reluctantly made the 75-mile trip by Cadillac...