Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Messerschmitt first gained fame building light sports planes. The young, soft-spoken engineer specialized in increasing aircraft speed and soon received military assignments. During the war, German factories filled European and African skies with 40,000 of his ME-109 fighters and ME-110 twin-engine bombers, aircraft so effective that Allied pilots who displayed bad nerves were said to have "the Messerschmitt twitch." In 1941 he developed the world's first combat jet, but Hitler stalled its production until the Third Reich's final days. Held in custody for two years after the war, and like other...
Boeing sought both British Aerospace wings and Rolls-Royce engines for its new 757, a twin-engine plane that will carry up to 195 passengers on short-to medium-range flights. Simultaneously the British government, which owns the two companies, was being pressed by the French-German-Spanish owners of Airbus Industrie to join them instead in making a narrow-bodied Airbus. Playing a kind of commercial Solomon, Prime Minister James Callaghan tried to win for Britain a piece of both projects...
Their craft was a thing of beauty-a 160,000-cu.-ft. balloon, 65 ft. in diameter and 97 ft. high. It had a 17-ft. by 6½-ft. by 6-ft. gondola that was built, with a realistic if not fatalistic approach, with a twin-hulled catamaran that would float if the need arose...
...problem began last June at Haifa's Rambam Hospital when two 21-year-old women gave birth some 24 hours apart. One had twin girls, the other a girl by caesarean section. Two or three days later, one of the twins and the other baby girl were accidentally switched, apparently by immigrant nurses who had trouble reading the Hebrew name tags. An observant supervisor quickly returned the babies to their correct mothers. But the women were worried. One complained that the baby given her did not look familiar, while the caesarean baby's mother said that the baby...
After nearly an hour, Peacock cut the twin Mercuries. "This is the spot!" he called. We floated noiselessly on a dusky patch of sea. The jagged line on the Fathometer confirmed that we were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream. Broadbills normally stay hundreds of feet down-one reason they are so hard to catch-but in the early '70s, Cuban refugee fishermen discovered that these fish rose from the depths at night, apparently to feed on squid that in turn were feeding on microscopic plankton...