Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sirica's second-floor Washington courtroom next week is one of the nation's foremost constitutional authorities, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright. A prolific scholar and ambitious lawyer, Wright, despite his relatively youthful age of 45, is by no means overmatched against his twin adversaries Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor and special Watergate prosecutor, and Senator Sam Ervin, the constitutional doyen of the Congress...
...reported by mission controllers was a malfunction in an attitude-control gyroscope, the second to break down so far (seven of Skylab's complement of nine gyros in the triply-redundant system are still working). The astronauts will carry up a replacement gyro. Already on board is a twin-pole awning. It is designed to replace the makeshift sunshade erected by the first crew to protect the orbital workshop's bare spot where it lost its thermal and meteoroid shielding...
Under the twin effects of the Depression and Browder's American-tailored revolutionary doctrine ("We have no different definition of revolution than that given by Thomas Jefferson," he liked to say), the party drew ever more members-close...
...became the proud possessor of the world's first true skyscraper, the nine-story, steel-framed Home Insurance Co. building. Within a decade, however, New York City captured the tallest skyscraper lead-and held it. The champion until last month was Manhattan's 1,350-ft.-high, twin-towered World Trade Center, which tops the Empire State Building by 100 ft. But now, after a lapse of about 80 years, Chicago again boasts the tallest tower: the $150 million Sears, Roebuck & Co. building, which soars 1,450 ft. above the city...
...Philip Berrigan is a dashing, ruggedly handsome man whose huge ebullience rarely fails to infect those he meets. Elizabeth McAlister-one of twin daughters among the nine children of an immigrant Irish contractor-became a nun in 1959 while she was still in college, but went on studying to get a master's degree in art history. At 33 she is a bit more subdued than in her breathless revolutionary days before the Harrisburg trial. A few years ago, when her community shifted from long religious habit to optional civilian clothes, both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used...