Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the cars' hoods lurked the apparatus of speed-superchargers, twin ignitions, high-compression engine heads, four-barreled carburetors, horsepower piled on horsepower. There were also gestures toward safety. One driver had reconnoitered the whole course, splashed yellow paint on the road to signal the worst curves (unfortunately, other drivers had also painted the course in stretches and confused the system). Thousands of Mexican soldiers were assigned to patrol the route, ward off unwary roadsiders. But safety seldom wins a race. For five days, over eight separately timed laps, speed was the watchword...
...back the intolerable. They would discover the practical demand for moral principle in politics and supply it from an ample hoard in their own past. Milton's name would ring out, and Hampden's. The responsibility that now shapes U.S. policy would fashion theirs into its weaker twin...
Botany Bay (Paramount) takes the slow boat (94 minutes) to Australia. The ship's log of the trip to the first white settlement in Australia (established in 1788) graphically records a couple of cat-lashings, three deaths, a stabbing, a few larcenous interludes, and even a twin-bill keelhauling. All the same, there are too many becalmed stretches when hardly anything happens. Based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the script is a sort of reefed-in version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Instead of Clark Gable there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even...
...order was a double victory for Fairchild and its president, Richard S. Boutelle, 55. It meant that the company's 9,000-man Hagerstown plant could keep running with almost no layoffs, when production of its own twin-tailed C-119 Packets tapers off next year. And it was also the final payoff in Fairchild's long and bitter wrangle with Kaiser, whose subsidiary. Chase Aircraft, had designed the C-123. The trouble started soon after Korea, when the Air Force farmed out an order for 159 of Fairchild's Cng cargo planes to Kaiser...
Q.E.D. In Twin Oaks, Calif., after Mountaineer George Taylor, 90, set the safety blocks and cranked his 1919 model T Ford, the car ran over him, headed down the mountain, caught fire, burned itself to a stop, drew from George a final farewell: "I never did trust those dern things...