Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McKay "based his plan for a new city in the West on bees because of their energy." He gathers up his family, his wife's twin brother, and a crowd of German clockmakers, and heads for Kansas. And the bees of course; once in the prairie, the labors of the bees will be the foundation of the community. The Germans would process their honey, and in the winter they could make clocks. By careful calculation, McKay determined that in five years, his ten hives would multiply to 10,000. Such were his prospects...
...pulled into Ithaca, I couldn't help wondering why I hadn't stayed on flight 295, eventually bound for Mineapolis-St. Paul. After all, the twin cities looked good on the Mary Tyler Moore Show...
...Railroad. Rocky Mountain has about 75 percent of the 125,00 acres that the companies have leased altogether from private landowners hoping for a big payday--few knowing about the dangers of uranium mining and the nuclear fuel cycle. The area involved is about 100 miles north of the Twin Cities area, and about 20 miles south of the Fond du Lac Reservation. So far there has been no leasing of reservation land...
...Mexico have agreed to cooperate on less sensitive problems. They have launched bilateral ventures in arid land management, water control and the pooling of science and technology. Tijuana and San Diego are working on a joint program to control air pollution, which may become a model for other twin cities along the frontier. New pacts have been signed that should lead to greater cross-border cooperation in dealing with such crimes as narcotics smuggling and auto theft. And, as one State Department official puts it, the recent gas deal "could serve as a symbolic link that will permit fruitful negotiations...
...time Nixon and I returned from the May 1972 summit in Moscow, Hanoi's spring offensive had run out of steam. With our bombing and mining making themselves felt, the North Vietnamese army was stalled. Our twin summits, in Peking and Moscow, had undoubtedly engendered a sense of isolation in the North. And they had greatly strengthened Nixon's domestic position, thus removing Hanoi's key weapon of leverage on us. In June we received the first inconclusive hints that Hanoi might be engaged in cease-fire planning. By the middle of September, the evidence was unmistakable...