Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night a month ago, Gray Leakey was challenged by prowling armed terrorists. In their own dialect, he told them that he was unarmed, turned his back and strolled away. True to his expectations, they let him go unharmed. One evening last fortnight, however, as Leakey, his wife and his stepdaughter Diana Hartley were having supper at the farm, a band of 30 Mau Mau swarmed out of the woods. Mrs. Leakey rushed to the bathroom with her daughter and helped her escape through a trap door into an attic above. Mrs. Leakey herself was too weak to follow. When Diana...
Guilty of Contempt. Last month Judge Adams cited Huie for contempt for trying to "bring this court into disrepute."; Huie, said Adams, had told the court-appointed psychiatrist that the judge was biased and was mixed up with local gamblers himself. Fortnight ago, at his own trial, Huie denied the charge. "You shoveled out a mess of filth and stuff of scandalous nature against a man who was dead and couldn't defend himself," said Judge Adams. When Huie grinned in court, Judge Adams snapped: "Brother, this is no matter to laugh about." He found Huie guilty of contempt...
...Dawson took just three-quarters of an hour spread across two autumn afternoons. Last month, while the Boilermakers beat Missouri 31-0, the 19th-year-old sophomore spent 23 minutes on the field, threw passes that scored four out of five of his team's touchdowns. Fortnight ago, Dawson took just 22 minutes to upset powerful Notre Dame by tossing four touchdown passes, intercepting one Irish attempt, and kicking three out of four conversions. Final, score: Dawson 27, Notre Dame 14. Last week, while Duke bottled up Boilermaker pass receivers and held Purdue in check...
...second time in three years, Chicago doctors were faced with a problem rare in medical history: what to do about Siamese twins joined together at the top of their heads. Deborah Marie and Christine Mary were born (by Caesarean section) a fortnight ago to Norene Andrews, 35, a former nurse, wife of a meat salesman, and mother of a normal five-year-old girl. The twins, who weighed about 6 Ibs. each at birth, ate normally, and woke or slept independently of each other, were united in much the same way as the famed Brodie twins (TIME...
...Disastrous" President. Scarcely a fortnight before, Cassandra had jolted his readers with an even more radical column. For years Cassandra has led Britain's anti-American chorus, hammered the U.S. for its "climate of fear," compared congressional investigations to "Communist trials," called President Eisenhower one of the most "disastrous" U.S. Presidents...