Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalist South Viet Nam (pop. 10½ million), the French, through Bao Dai. still manipulate discredited sects in divide-and-rule techniques against Diem, hoping to undermine the Nationalists and maintain their colonial influence. "A personal failure . . . imposed from outside," the official French radio characterized Diem fortnight...
...Friend. A fortnight earlier, Zhukov had written to President Eisenhower, addressing him as "Dear Old Comrade in Arms." Reminding Ike of their friendship in Berlin at the end of World War II, he had asked Ike's help in persuading the runaway son of a Russian colonel to return home. Only last week, at his press conference. Eisenhower referred once again to "my old friend" Zhukov...
...president of Virginia's College of William and Mary, Vice Admiral Alvin D. Chandler, USN (ret.) has tried to make the easygoing campus a taut ship (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951). Last fortnight he announced that the governing Board of Visitors had ordered him to put tighter regulations into effect next fall. The new rules: no beer on campus, chaperons for every fraternity party, closer administrative control of student publications. Last week the students made public their answer to ship's discipline. In a special poll of the 1,700 undergraduates, more than half of the 1,165 answering...
...past fortnight Nationalist and U.S. intelligence sources have detected signs of two additional new airfields being started on the Fukien coast-near Amoy, the mainland port opposite Quemoy. They bring to five the total of Communist airfields recently built or abuilding on the mainland across from Formosa. Once completed and equipped, the new fields will give the Chinese Communists air striking power over the Nationalist-held offshore islands and Formosa. U.S. intelligence knows that the Chinese Communists have shifted their bomber forces southward into Fomrosa range; U.S. reconnaissance shows that the Communists have amassed heavy military equipment along the China...
...great searcher for new meanings himself. Born in Strasbourg, he has occupied the chair of Early Church History and the New Testament at Switzerland's Basel University since 1938. Theologian Cullmann also teaches early Christianity at the Sorbonne, commuting to Paris for two days of lecturing every fortnight. Cullmann stitches busily away at his theological works on trains between Basel, Paris and Rome (soon to be published is his book on the Christology of the New Testament, and also in progress are a French translation of the New Testament, a commentary on the Gospel of John, and innumerable lectures...