Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twin Cities Metropolitan Council in Minnesota, which plans development for nine counties and has veto power over growth-inducing facilities-including projects like airports and sewers...
Minnesota's journalists were as excited as their French counterpart about the cover, but for different reasons. The St. Paul Pioneer Press noted that TIME had emphasized Minneapolis and virtually ignored its twin city. "If this article brings Minnesota an influx of fast-buck sharpies from the east, or smog-befuddled escapees from California," said the Press, "let them settle in Minneapolis. We won't be childish about it." "If the article seems to slide over some of our problems, that's all right," said a Minneapolis Tribune editorial. "Our problems, to one degree or another...
...Well, my father was her 3rd husband. And with him she had 18 children. When she married my father she was in her early twenties. She had 2 pair of twins in the family. One pair lived. I was told I was a twin. Can you imagine a boy lookin' like me? My mother was a hard worker. The only thing I can remember about her was when I used to run away. I wouldn't ever go that far. I used to run away all the time. That used to be my other name, besides bookworm. My mother never...
Migrations. Minnesotans tend to be participants in their communities, perhaps because for so long they were comparatively isolated and developed traditions of mutual reliance. Citizens' lobbies are a real force. The most no table is the Twin Cities Citizens League. Funded by membership fees, foundation and business grants, it includes lawyers, bankers, laborers and company vice presidents. Each fall, the league settles on a variety of projects to study. Committees are formed and meet once a week to hear an expert on the subject under scrutiny. Among the league's pioneering recommendations that became law: the Twin Cities metropolitan council...
...green and mutton-fat jade, each no bigger than a matchbook cover, intricately sewn and bound together with gold wire. Its archaeological interest is unique: ancient Chinese texts mentioned jade burial armor as the special privilege of imperial blood, but Tu Wan's shroud-together with its twin, made for her husband, the Prince Liu Cheng-is the first such suit yet unearthed. But that aside, the shroud has an almost hallucinatory air: a green and glittering robot of semiprecious stone, assembled round a dummy. The blunt toes and plated wedge of a nose point at the roof...