Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cyprus, a strategically situated island in the eastern Mediterranean, is a place that has been denied even the long-term hope of independence. The British, anxious to strengthen it as a Middle Eastern base now that Suez has gone, fortnight ago classified Cyprus as one of those parts of their empire which will never be allowed to go free. Last week the British-run government of the island, getting specific, forbade Cypriot agitation for Enosis (union) with Greece. Henceforth, Enosis agitation on Cyprus will be punished as seditious...
Moment of Defeat. The decisive argument was provided fortnight ago by the Russians themselves. Molotov dispatched a note asking for a new conference after Geneva on European security (TIME, Aug. 2). It was a clumsy and obvious piece of propaganda. In the Cabinet. Salisbury and Eden pointed out incisively that it added nothing to the very same suggestion the Russians made (and the West rejected) six months ago in Berlin. If that is all the Kremlin is ready to put forward, there was no point in a Churchill-Malenkov talk...
...Churchill's ministers have resigned in the past fortnight. If he intended to stay long, he might have used the occasion for an overdue Cabinet reshuffle. Instead, he merely filled the two vacant posts. The changes...
...helicopter, first flown a fortnight ago. Developing a net 260 h.p., it can carry four passengers. Estimated price...
...last fortnight, the newspapers and beer bottles-and the skill of the delivery team-were put to a greater test than usual. A call came in to the center's switchboard asking for a doctor to attend a Puerto Rican woman a half-hour's drive away. Quickly, a delivery crew assembled: Spanish-born Dr. Esteban Martin Martin. University of Wisconsin Medical Student Marvin Hinke and two visiting nurses. They picked up their black bags and set out in Dr. Martin's car. When it broke down (Martin's diagnosis: "Vascular ailment of the gas line...