Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...visit their parents. Instead, they went to Mexico City, checked in at a cheap hotel, told the clerk that they would be staying about two weeks. Next morning they abruptly checked out, later boarded a plane for Havana. Last week the Defense Department glumly announced that from Cuba the pair had apparently "gone behind the Iron Curtain," and added, as reassuringly as it could, that the two men did not know any important secrets...
...announced that the D.C. after Washington stood for "Desprit Cusses," and advised President Lincoln to fill his Cabinet with show-business types since they would know how to cater to the public. Mark Twain was often deserted by his light touch when he contemplated politics, though he contributed a pair of memorable definitions: a Senator is someone who "makes laws in Washington when not doing time"; and "public office is private graft...
...from the mountainside like a giant teetering tombstone, and guards the eastern approach to Longs Peak, a 14,256-ft. tower in the Rockies some 75 miles northwest of Denver. The stretch of rock is one of the last great unconquered climbs in the U.S.* Last week a pair of seasoned climbers from California checked their gear and set out to become the first men to mount the Diamond...
Because of the outward slant of the Diamond, the pair had to use "tension climbing," searching the expanse of crumbling granite for solid spots, hammering in pitons to build a ladder of rope and expansion belts. Sudden gushes of icy water down crevasses drenched them repeatedly. At times they dangled in space 20 ft. out from the face of the Diamond. As they fought their way up, the acoustics of the mountain carried wisps of their comments to the gathering crowd below: "Say, I think it's getting colder again." Dusk of the second day found them precariously camped...
...ditch digger whose name did him no harm in winning the maximum three terms as state treasurer (salary: $11,000). Now he wants to be Governor, and has at least a nominally clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral of Jack Kennedy's grandfather. "We all came from Ireland," says John...