  String models are designed to provide a covariant description of internal
space-time structure of relativistic particles. The string is a limiting case
of a series of massive beads like a pearl necklace. In the limit of
infinite-number of zero-mass beads, it becomes a field-theoretic string.
Another interesting limit is to keep only two pearls by eliminating all others,
resulting in a harmonic oscillator. The basic strength of the oscillator model
is its mathematical simplicity. This encourages us to construct two-pearl
strings for a covariant picture of relativistic extended particles. We achieve
this goal by transforming the oscillator model of Feynman {\it et al.} into a
representation of the Poincar\'e group. We then construct representations of
the O(3)-like little group for those oscillator states, which dictates their
internal space-time symmetry of massive particles. This simple mathematical
procedure allows us to explain what we observe in the world in terms of the
fundamental space-time symmetries, and the built-in covariance of the model
allows us to use the physics in the rest frame in order to explain what happens
in the infinite-momentum frame. It is thus possible to calculate the parton
distribution within the proton moving light-like speed in terms of the quark
wave function in its rest frame.

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