Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning temperatures fell to freezing at President Eisenhower's Denver retreat. But as the mercury dropped outside, Ike seemed to be warming up under the collar for the fall political campaign. He endorsed a plan to distribute around the U.S. motion pictures of his Los Angeles speech a fortnight ago, in which he bluntly called for the election of a Republican Congress. He also decided to turn a simple "get-out-the-vote" TV-radio appearance this week into another appeal for a G.O.P. Congress, and he will make still another plea on election eve. Some...
...building-or a "Temple of Mammon," as some oldfashioned, ritualistic Socialists insisted on calling it-Britons went home in their time-honored way to write protesting letters to the newspapers. The press responded thunderously, and the owners of the site agreed to preserve the temple for at least a fortnight, until someone could figure out how to preserve Mithras' old home...
...bullish news, it was small wonder that the stock market continued its spectacular advance. Last week, following such blue chips as General Motors (up $4 to $89 a share) and Standard Oil of Indiana (up $12 to $95), the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed six points, for a fortnight's gain of 13. At 316.67, it was only 20 points below the alltime high of 381.17 in September...
...Garry Moore Show (weekdays, 10 a.m., CBS-TV) one day last fortnight, crew-cut Master of Ceremonies Moore decided to brighten the day of a vacationing housewife in his studio audience. Mrs. Margaret Deibel, 26, had come to Manhattan with her appliance-salesman husband from their home in Mount Pleasant, Mich. (pop. 11,000). "Are you rich?" Moore asked Mrs. Deibel. No, said she, but not poor either. "Just for laughs," as he later explained, Moore suggested to his estimated 3,000,000 televiewers that they each send Mrs. Deibel a nickel. That was all there...
...gave some ground to rival NBC last fortnight in the endless contest for network supremacy (TIME, Sept. 20). NBC's most expensive, ambitious attack to date was Satins and Spurs, starring Betty Hutton, the first of a series of $300,000 "spectaculars" (telecast in color). Most critics gave it restrained applause, but after comparing the Trendex ratings of Satins (16.5) and its own Toast of the Town (34.6), CBS confidently launched its counterattack last week...