Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Buchanan, who has reportedly played in three try-out games with the Chicago Blackhawks, teams with his twin brother Neil to boost the Michigan defense, while the sextet's offense is paced by Captain Bill MacFarlane and wing Tom Rendall...
...delta- and swept-wing jets like the Javelin and the Hunter. But in a supplementary report which unconvincingly boasted that "this country has an effective air defense," the Defense Ministry as good as admitted that most of the R.A.F.'s fighters are too slow to catch Soviet twin-jet bombers...
...admen and promoters to some all-purpose operators that the others call "export bums." U.S. and other foreign companies have contributed heavily to Caracas' great private building boom, but the government splurge of public works is more than twice as big. The Centre Simon Bolivar, a complex of twin 30-story office buildings, underground parking areas, landscaping and traffic routes, is nearing completion on a site where 400 buildings once stood in the heart of old Caracas. It was inspired by Rockefeller Center-but so far has cost at least three times as much as the Manhattan development...
...airplane. Hung under the wings on swivels are two small jet. engines made by Fairchild for use in drone targets and guided missiles. Each weighs 300 Ibs. and has 1,000 Ibs. of static thrust. Since the whole airplane, engines and all, weighs only about 2,000 Ibs., the twin jets, directed downward, can lift it vertically off the ground. Controlling a craft that rises in this manner is a tricky business. Even more tricky is converting it to horizontal flight...
...routine flight from Des Moines to Lincoln, Neb. three weeks ago, United Air Lines flight 329 ran into the kind of trouble that usually means death. Climbing west over Iowa, the twin-engined Convair went out of control and nosed down...