Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane contract, which has been up in the air since the Kaiser Motor Co. lost it. finally came down to earth last week on a broad Maryland runway. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. of Hagerstown, Md. won the contract for 165 twin-engined Chase C-123 Avitruc transports by underbidding four other companies. Its bid, 10% under its nearest competitor, was close to the original Air Force estimate of $276 million for the big, potbellied assault transports...
...opening of a new $1,500,000 University Center this fall as part of the anniversary procedings may help undergraduate social life. A large ominous Georgian structure, it will house among other things, a dance hall, a cafeteria, a dining hall, bowling alleys, a snack bar, twin lounges for reading and watching television, offices for undergraduate activities, and 55 senior girls. Although opened last month, the building will be dedicated on Founder's Day. Students feel that it may be a big aid in strengthening non-fraternity extra-curricular and social life. for those who don't belong to fraternities...
...Orleans hospital last week, Ashton Mouton and his wife Rosa looked down on one of the most satisfying sights of their lives: their twin daughters, two months old, asleep for the first time in separate cribs. Until last week, Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne had been pygopagus twins, joined at the lower ends of their spines...
...outlook," said Hospital Superintendent Dr. Lester L. Weismiller, "is very good . . . Every passing hour increases their chances for survival." Soon, if all goes well, the twin with the complete lower intestine will have her colostomy sewed up; the other may need hers for life...
Sensitive Dissenter. The age of sophistication raises an eyebrow at any such Hairbreadth Harry interpretation of history. But the U.S.'s awakening to the twin perils of Communist intentions and Communist scientific capabilities has been a hairbreadth affair. Like his late great friend, James Forrestal, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with saws) was one of a little band of men in Government who caught the threat of Communism when others heard only what they wanted to hear, who was motivated by a single-minded patriotism when patriotism was a drug on the one-world market. For years, Strauss was virtually unknown...