Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago is gangsterism; New York is a fat capitalist, Los Angeles is a Hollywood tart, and the land between the cities is drenched in the bitter lees of The Grapes of Wrath. This caricature is a fact which every American responsibly concerned with U.S. foreign relations must face. A fortnight ago the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, had to face it in a concrete form. Invited to attend the annual Venice Film Festival, she found that its program included an M-G-M film, Blackboard Jungle (TIME, March 21), which deals heavy-handedly with juvenile delinquency...
...still growing: fortnight ago it launched its Oregon edition, i.e., local program listings and news inside a national news-and-feature jacket; editions are being readied for Oklahoma, Georgia, Louisiana. For its Oct. 1 issue, TV Guide will guarantee 39 separate editions, mail and newsstand circulation of 3,000,000 weekly...
...confusion. After Marine Corps service, he skidded downhill, ended by committing ten holdups in Chicago in 1953. Put on probation by a kindly judge, Krolik pulled himself together, went to a Franciscan monastery in Topawa. Ariz., there worked on 14 murals that won high praise. Then confusion returned. Fortnight ago in Tucson, Krolik bought a $55 pistol and holster and left for El Paso...
...colons. Extremists organized a bloody rising in the eastern mountains last year. Moderate Nationalists might have worked for compromise, but the French outlawed the entire party and declared that because "Algeria is France," revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. When Morocco's "Fateful Day" arrived a fortnight...
...estimated 401,000 children received shots of Cutter vaccine in the fortnight before it was recalled. Polio struck 79 of the vaccinated children and 90 others who came into contact with them...