Word: twins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seventh of civilian Carpenter Kirby Newman's nine sons to enter the Navy-making the Newman family the first in the memory of naval officials to have seven brothers on active duty at the same time. Idaho communities celebrated "Newman Day"; John's home town of Twin Falls proudly proclaimed itself the "Home of the Newman Navy"; and Secretary of the Navy Paul R. Ignatius sent a telegram expressing his and President Johnson's pleasure at John's induction. Asked if he would like to be stationed with one of his brothers, John replied...
Lately, under the twin spurs of threatened inflation and easy credit, speculators have been especially active in two most traditional fields: the stock market and the commodities exchanges. "October, this is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks," said Mark Twain. "The others are: July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February." His caution is widely ignored. No fewer than 22 million people own common stocks, far more than ever before, and few among them do not have some sort of speculative ambition. Daily trading on the New York Stock...
...British, French and German governments got an aircraft-manufacturing consortium together to cash in on the demand. Their early lead disappeared as the partners fell to feuding. They also suffered a rude shock when American Airlines Chairman C. R. Smith allowed as how he would have none of a twin-jet design, considered anything less than three engines in a 300-passenger plane foolhardy for safety reasons...
...Bowes, packages for Nabisco. Snaith recently designed the interior of a new Wanamaker's at King of Prussia, Pa., is planning a marina-office-motel complex in Connecticut and a vacation-house development in Vermont. Last week Fairchild-Hiller commissioned the firm to design the interiors for its twin...
...picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds a bastard brother, and eventually learns his own name, Arthur George Griffin. A baleful woman named Maire, who has made several attempts on his life, turns out to have been his wife, and she dotes on him because he is so perfectly...