Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Times a Day. At week's end the Assembly was busy probing the threat of nuclear war. Politely but firmly, the U.N. orators made clear that they were not interested in the kind of general disarmament proposed by Nikita Khrushchev fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 28), unless it was accompanied by controls. "The hard fact," said Norway's Halvard Lange, "seems to be that no government feels it can take the responsibility for starting on the road to disarmament unless it can feel assured, on the basis of an effective control system, that the security of its country...
With voting day (Oct. 8) barely a fortnight off, Britain's 1959 general election had turned into a door-to-door battle in the 205 "marginal" parliamentary constituencies (those carried last time by fewer than 5,000 votes), where all political observers agreed the outcome would be decided. The Tories were counting on prosperity and genial Harold Macmillan's undeniable personal popularity to help them "turn the hat trick," i.e., win an unprecedented third straight general election victory. But in the marginal constituencies, where national personalities and national issues were not likely to prove the deciding factor, Labor...
Guilty as he might be, Tabakchali had nonetheless won the sympathy of the whole Arab world. Throughout his trial, Egypt's Kassem-hating press and radio had hailed him and his fellow defendants as martyrs. In a more practical effort to help, Nasser's intelligence network fortnight ago bloodily disposed of a double agent who had been scheduled to testify against Tabakchali (TIME, Sept. 21). And in Iraq itself, Tabakchali's dignified conduct during the trial had won him an outspoken following, inspired for the first time unabashed criticism of Kassem in Baghdad...
...Fortnight ago, in desperation, Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka introduced a new tactic to beef up the party in rural areas. Since offers of good jobs, high salaries, and softer living had not succeeded in winning new rural members, Gomulka decreed that Communist workers who commute from villages to town factories would have their memberships transferred to the village party list to give a "psychological boost" to scattered country members and make others "less hesitant" to join...
Robbins' young troupe (average age: 24) reached London midway in a four-month State Department-sponsored tour of Europe and Israel; so far, the troupe has attracted capacity crowds everywhere from Salzburg to Athens. Fortnight ago, performing without costumes or sets (lost in a plane crash), Robbins & Co. proved to be the hit of the Edinburgh Festival. Most of the program at both Edinburgh and London's Piccadilly Theatre was originally devised for last year's Spoleto Festival. Included last week were N.Y. Export, Op. Jazz, a deadpan exercise in which knees break, shoulders shrug...