Word: twister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by Lockheed engineers as a high-performance, wheel-driven answer to the tank, the curious transport is fittingly called the Twister...
...contraption's extraordinary capability lies in its configuration. Composed of two Jeep-like bodies hitched together by a flexible yoke, it can literally point in two directions at once. As a result, the four wheels on each segment remain firmly planted on the ground, even as the Twister crosses the crest of a small hill. The fore and aft sections are powered by two independent 140-h.p. air-cooled Corvair engines, modified so that they can operate even at a sharp tilt. The driver pilots the eight-wheel-drive vehicle from the rear body. He has at his disposal...
Despite its complexity, the Twister is relatively easy to maneuver. Developed to meet the need for a rugged, readily transportable combat machine, it could carry men and weapons on the variety of battlefields likely to be encountered in limited warfare. Not only is it more agile than most tanks, say the engineers, but it can also press on even if one engine fails or several tires are punctured. Lockheed recently negotiated a $3,000,000 contract with the Pentagon for the production of test vehicles. Though their design is military, Twisters might eventually be used by construction men, explorers...
...companies in fields as diverse as aerospace (Garrett Corp.), trucking (Mack) and banking (Arizona Bancorporation), recently jested in advertisements that "we've thought of calling ourselves Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporation." While Signal does, in fact, plan to take on a new name that will better reflect its conglomerate status, that tongue twister will never do-if only because the company would have to keep changing its letterheads. Last week, for instance, it might have become "Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporationallischalmers...
...that "the country is sick to death of this whining and whimpering from the Prime Minister." When Wilson claimed to have answered a question that he really had not, Tory Chairman Anthony Barber exclaimed: "That confirms the suspicion of the whole country that the right honorable gentleman is a twister." The Speaker asked Barber to withdraw the remark. Some of the harshest criticism was leveled at Wilson by the former head of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer. Unlike Britain's two previous devaluations in 1931 and 1949, he said, "this time devaluation was the outcome solely...