Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba (pop. 6,100,000). President Fulgencio Batista gives far more freedom than the other three strongmen. But Cubans are restive. University students, courting martyrdom, clash constantly with Batista's police, who often react hotheadedly. A fortnight ago a 22-year-old girl student was cruelly tortured, and the regime, rightly or wrongly, got the blame. To relieve the heat and pressure, Batista may have to make the concession that his opposition demands: free elections soon...
When Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman set out to get control of Chicago & North Western Railway a fortnight ago, he told the North Western board of directors that he preferred a peaceful alliance to a proxy war. This week, after ten days of fast-express negotiations, Heineman and North Western agreed on an alliance. Heineman will take over as full-time board chairman and chief executive officer of North Western, give up both his law practice and his connections with Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, which he took over almost two years ago. But he did not get his demand...
...student congress. Because such a student congress would rival the S.E.U., the proposal drew Falange fire; but University Rector Dr. Pedro Laín Entralgo thought it wise to allow the students to blow off steam, agreed to free elections, class by class, in the downtown law school. Last fortnight first-year law students, voting for 20 congress delegates, elected only one man from a full slate of candidates put up by the S.E.U. Two days later the second-year men voted, and the S.E.U. got only 2 of 20 places...
...general board of the university recommended that no additions be made to any scientific staff, that research be curtailed, that in the interests of preserving the traditional, residential character of Cambridge, "further expansion in the teaching of applied science and technology might best be left to other universities." Last fortnight 600 of the university's dons met in their marble Senate House to hear the opponents of the proposal state their case. Last week it was the turn of the supporters. When the arguments are all in, the senate will have to vote on just what sort of university...
...Sweden ran a $50 million trade deficit last year, twice as much as in 1954. Denmark, on the other hand, held its imports down and boosted exports $70 million last year, thereby cut its $200 million trade gap to $135 million. Yet Denmark is still having trouble. Only a fortnight ago, for example, the retail price index jumped five points...