Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last fortnight, a young Palestinian Arab employed as a senior translator by the Arabian-American Oil Company in Dhahran, was awakened by a Saudi Arabian cop. "Here's the list," softly murmured the Saudi cop, handing over a bit of paper with 72 names scrawled upon it. The translator knew what was expected of him: to check off a new batch of "undesirable" Palestinian Arabs on Aramco's staff, slated for arrest and deportation by royal decree...
Designer du Pont, who looks a decade younger than his 50 years, faces his task every fortnight with the equanimity of a man who knows and loves his job. He appears at his office at 7 every morning, leaves after 7 at night. But two days before a spectacular goes on the air, he turns, up at NBC's vast Brooklyn studio at 8 a.m. for a 40-hour siege. He is equipped with a cot and icebox and, for emergencies, aspirin, Empirin, Desoxyn, phenobarbital and Dexedrine...
Four Steps Backward. Taken in larger context, the Soviet groveling at Belgrade was all the more interesting. It represented the fourth recent major reversal of an important Russian position. Within a fortnight, the Soviet Union has 1) signed an Austrian peace treaty that was less favorable to it than a treaty it had been rejecting for years, 2) announced a new disarmament plan that, while still unsatisfactory to the U.S., offered more concessions than ever before, and 3) agreed to Big Four talks "at the summit" under conditions that the Communists had previously denounced. For months, Soviet leaders had said...
Then the Bible teacher appealed to the government itself, protesting indignantly that "in this school, sexual relations between pupils are entirely consistent with the highest conduct marks." A fortnight ago, at a formal Cabinet meeting presided over by Prince Bertil, son of King Gustaf VI Adolf, the government formally backed the school principal over the Bible teacher...
...Charles Edward Wilson, 68, onetime president of General Electric and high Government boss (War Production Board, Office of Defense Mobilization), now enjoying a new career at W. R. Grace & Co. (he was elected chairman a fortnight ago), was elected as a public representative on the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange...