Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of Geneva, the Viet Minh Communists must get out of their old positions in South Viet Nam in phased withdrawals just as the French are gradually pulling out in the north. A fortnight ago the time came for the Communists to leave Camau (pop. 900,000), an area the size of Connecticut on the southern tip of free South Viet Nam. The Communists had ruled Camau since 1945, and when their 30,000 troops moved off north in Russian and Polish transports, they left a sharp test for South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem...
Only Emperor Hirohito himself could attract such attention. With a nationwide election less than a fortnight away, 72-year-old Ichiro Hatoyama seemed to be establishing himself as the most popular politician in postwar Japan...
...local press promptly named the statue "The Groping Boy." Snapped Roy Elkins, managing editor of the Bristol Virginia-Tennnessean: "The deer looks half-starved and the boy is in even worse shape." To most Bristol citizens the work was "idiotic," "ridiculous" and "a monstrosity." Last fortnight the city council voted to pay $2,600 for the artist's expenses, and canceled the contract...
Music may be for the young at heart, but it is not necessarily made by the young in years. Manhattan had a brilliant mid-season fortnight, with many of the star performers over 60 and showing no signs of giving...
...recent trend, e.g., Dragnet, is to turn TV plays into movies, using the TV shows as publicity buildups. Several studios and independents are bidding for Patterns, the TV play about big business that got a repeat performance fortnight ago on Kraft TV Theater (TIME. Feb. 21). Seven other TV shows have either been made into movies or are under consideration, including Marty, Dear Phoebe, Halls of Ivy and Waterfront...