Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many sea passengers were suddenly confronted with expensive excess-baggage fees on the planes. Far more tragically stranded were hundreds of outward-bound British emigrants, many of whom had sold all they possessed and spent a futile fortnight fighting their way across a strikebound country only to come to a full stop at the gateway. Short of funds in the emergency, many signed on at the Labor Exchange for temporary jobs...
...morning last fortnight, all these people marched out past their tumbledown cemetery to the green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
...will of the people finally became manifest a fortnight ago at a convention of Adhemar's personally operated Social Progressive Party. Into the assembly hall of Rio's Chamber of Deputies whose rosewood paneling and carved furnishings were hidden by banners, flowers and clouds of confetti, thronged delegates and onlookers. Perfumed women in mink stoles mixed with cab drivers and shoeshine boys. Some spectators shinnied up columns for a better view. After hours of "man-who" speeches, Adhemar entered, slapping backs, embracing, shaking hands. When at last his figure towered over them from the platform, the crowd whooped...
POTATO PANIC on the New York Mercantile Exchange a fortnight ago (TIME, June 13) was the result of an attempt to manipulate prices, says the U.S. Agriculture Department. Agriculture charges that Winn & Lovett Grocery Co., a big southern retail chain (200 stores in five states), tried to force prices down by circulating "false, misleading or knowingly inaccurate reports," and that the company sold 1,003 car lots of May potato futures "with knowledge of the fact that they did not have and would be unable to obtain potatoes to deliver...
...thee? Let me count the ways") The best thing about the 1931Broadway hit, in fact, was the writing: unlike that of most TV plays, it was at least distinguishable from the commercials between the acts. Beyond the writing, however, The Barretts indicated again, as Front Row Center did a fortnight ago with Dinner at Eight, that it is next to impossible to squeeze a well-known stage play into less than 60 minutes of TV time...