Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clerk droned through long pages of sworn testimony. Most of the country's people, torn from sleep by the high drama, heard the evidence on their radios. When the clerk finished, Panamanians struggled to grasp an appalling accusation. According to the confessed triggerman, the highest plotter in last fortnight's race-track assassination of President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was none other than José Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vice President and legally installed successor as President of Panama...
...most serious blow of all was the law of a fortnight ago making divorce legal for the first time in Argentina's history. Last week the Argentine episcopate issued a letter deploring the divorce law, ordered it read from every Roman Catholic pulpit in the country. A newly formed underground association distributed pamphlets urging Catholics to display their loyalty to the faith by wearing badges of Roman Catholic organizations and bowing to priests "proudly and ostentatiously." In Buenos Aires and Córdoba, gangs of Roman Catholic youths beat up several bogus priests-apparently government agents in clerical garb...
...example, a year ago the editor of the monarchist paper ABC, one of the biggest dailies in the country (circ. 90,000), was removed by the government for publishing "news and editorials contrary to official policy." A fortnight ago Franco's Falange party struck at ABC again by drastically cutting its newsprint quota, after the paper neglected to print a "required" editorial praising government candidates for public office. So strong is government censorship that neither the actions against ABC nor the proposed new press law have been reported in the country. When the New York Times's international...
...This Is Your Life last fortnight, Host Ralph Edwards appealed to his audience to send a million dollars to Dr. Laurence Jones, founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School, Piney Woods, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 27). In the first four days, nearly $150,000 poured into Piney Woods. By this week the total had risen to $500,000, and letters were still arriving...
...near Britain's south coast, stand six black-painted hangars belonging to Vickers Ltd. Inside are planes abuilding that pose the biggest threat to U.S. domination of the world's transport airlanes. The planes are Vickers Viscounts, 48 place, 320-m.p.h. airliners with four turboprop engines. A fortnight ago the first Viscount of a 22-plane order for Trans-Canada Airlines flew across the Atlantic to Montreal. Last week another new turboprop took off for the other end of the world, one of a six-plane order for Trans-Australia Airlines which the company finds ideal...