Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit of such ways, Dulles spent 1954 in a ceaseless round of travel, logging 101,521 miles on journeys to Berlin, London, Paris, Caracas, Bonn, Geneva, Milan, Manila and Tokyo. In one fortnight last September, he munched mangoes with Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay in Manila, conferred with Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, visited Premier Yoshida in Tokyo, reported to President Eisenhower in Denver, consulted with Winston Churchill in London and talked with Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. En route, he read a detective story in mid-Pacific, slept soundly across the Atlantic, and carried on U.S. State Department business...
...publisher and columnist of the Boston Post, Financial Juggler and Amateur Journalist John Fox last year predicted a major depression in the U.S. The prediction proved spectacularly wrong for everyone but the Post. Since his forecast, his circulation has slumped. A fortnight ago he fired 58 Postmen for economy. Morale has been further damaged by the fact that many a staffer had invested in Fox's Keta Gas & Oil Corp. In the last year the stock has dropped from 15 to 3½. Even Fox himself shows signs of depression about his first erratic excursion into journalism. Last week...
...their national committee meeting at New Orleans last fortnight, Democrats, looking to 1956, alternated between hope and despair. If Eisenhower does not run, they are almost sure they can win; if he does, they are almost sure they will be beaten. These conclusions are consistent with the main Democratic line of not publicly attacking Eisenhower. Since he is popular, attacks hurt the party of the attackers. Since he is a man of self-respect, personal attacks might lead him to seek vindication by running again...
Familiar Routine. Becoming Presidentelect of his Nebraska-size country (pop. 2,350,000) in last fortnight's election (TIME, Dec. 13) worked little change on Batlle Berres. He rose as usual at 6 o'clock, after six hours' sleep. At his newspaper Action, he dummied up the editorial page, writing some of it himself. Rakishly jamming on his hat, he went to lunch at a modest restaurant, where the waiters gathered to congratulate him; he stood up to shake hands with them all. In the afternoon he began reading through 6.000 congratulatory cables and telegrams...
...other work. It will close in January. ¶ The Sheil School of Social Studies, set up to provide adult education in the liberal arts and philosophy. It has been attended by some 20,000 in its eleven years, was at its record enrollment of 700 when it closed last fortnight. ¶ The Sheil Social Service, which collected food and clothing for poor children, closed in September. ¶FM station WFJL, which promoted religion along with its boxing matches, closing December...