Word: twins
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...much emphasis on the superficial qualities and not enough on intelligence." The sisters from Fairfield, Conn., are honors English majors and have no small ambitions about using their heads. "We'd like to run our own magazine," says Patty. "All we need is a Daddy Warbucks." But which twin will be the editor and which the publisher...
Control Data (estimated 1985 sales: $4.9 billion) faces daunting problems. The company's computer operations have been hit by an industry-wide slump and intense Japanese competition. The twin setbacks have pushed the firm into deep financial trouble. Control Data lost $270 million during the first nine months of 1985, and the red ink could easily pass $300 million for the entire year. To help repay bank loans on which it defaulted last summer, the company is selling Ticketron, its electronic ticketing service, and other operations. An earlier attempt to raise badly needed cash by selling Commercial Credit, Control Data...
...ancient Mayan city of Tikal is in getting there. The site's famous ruins are buried deep in the Guatemalan jungle, and the 40-min. flight from Guatemala City affords sightseers spectacular views of the lush terrain. But last Saturday morning that journey ended in tragedy as a twin-engine Caravelle operated by the private carrier Aerovias crashed on its way to the airport at Santa Elena, 37 miles south of Tikal. Early reports put the number killed at 90, including six Americans. Some of the passengers had apparently traveled to Guatemala for the swearing-in of President Vinicio Cerezo...
...appeared to have chilling overtones of Chernobyl. A Soviet Yankee I-class submarine on patrol in the Atlantic had been crippled by an explosion and fire that had killed three crew members, and had surfaced about 550 miles east of Bermuda. Of immediate concern: the sub was powered by twin nuclear reactors and carried up to 16 SS-N-6 ballistic missiles, each tipped with two nuclear warheads...
...clear from the log's terse entries that increased pressure is leading to new disclosures. The interrogators keep juggling techniques--giving extra sleep some days, offering a home-cooked Arab meal on another (al-Qahtani refuses it). Later that day, when a video of the destruction of the Twin Towers is played, al-Qahtani becomes so violent, he has to be restrained. "We can't say, Because we did this, we got that," a senior Pentagon official says. "If we did know what worked, we'd know exactly which pressure points to apply and when." Even al-Qahtani seems...