Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twin Waves. De Gaulle's pronouncement-the most optimistic he has allowed himself-sent a wave of applause through his audience, a wave of astonishment through professional politicians. In Algiers last week the French army boasted that the rebels had suffered an average of 900 casualties a week in March and April -a claim that scarcely suggested that the Algerian fighting was dwindling. A rebel spokesman, far from denying the French claim, declared that the rebels were in fact losing 500 men a day, but that, despite this, their army had grown...
Born. To Philip Crosby, 24, son of Bing, twin brother of Dennis, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 20: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Dixie Lee (after Philip's late mother). Weight...
...pilot will not have to glance away even when landing or taking off). While moving farther into the wild blue yonder, he is also readying new gadgets for planes. His newest commercial product: the $1,500 Navcom (combination communications and navigation instrument box), which puts even single-engined or twin-engined executive-type planes on a par with big commercial airliners when flying on instruments through rough weather...
...Fifth Avenue apartment is rich with a Rouault, a Dufy, two Renoirs, two Vlamincks; his Washington office is studded with hi-fi and Queen Anne furniture. Chalk commutes between the two places in his telephone-equipped cars (black Cadillac, white Continental), on off hours retires to his 83-ft., twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels, blue shirts with pleats. Superstitious and a gambler, he enjoys chemin de fer and craps...
This expropriation has produced the "twin horrors of capitalistic war," Meyerson claimed. Representing the Debate Council, Marc E. Leland '59 and Edward C. Pinkus '59 opposed the resolution, supported by Meyerson and George J. Gloss, "Resolved: That Socialism is the cure for our ills...