Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crippa, 55, of Rock Springs. Wyo., a lean, eager merchant, banker and auto-dealer whose father was born in the Tyrolean Alps. Appointed by Wyoming's Republican Governor C. J. Rogers to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Lester Callaway Hunt, who shot himself to death last fortnight (TIME, June 28), Republican National Committeeman Crippa restored the G.O.P. to a numerical majority in the Senate. The count now: 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one Wayne Morse. Appointee Crippa will not run for the full Senate term in the November election. Leading contender in that race: Republican William Henry Harrison...
Food Like Home. When the visitors arrived a fortnight early, the little town of Henley shrugged off its normal absent-minded air and pitched in to help them train. At first the Russians-nine assorted coaches and chaperones, a chubby lady physician and 23 earnest oarsmen-were split into two groups, one to reside at the Jolly Waterman, a tavern about a mile from the river, the other at Fair Mile, twelve-room Victorian residence of Reginald Pearce, a Henley jeweler. Said...
...said would eliminate inequalities in pay and would cut the $170,000 weekly payroll by almost 2%. When the union balked, the company offered to make up the $3,000 difference by a 4?-an-hour increase across the board so the overall payroll would be the same. But fortnight ago. unwilling to settle for anything but a renewal of the old contract, 2,100 employees went on strike...
...fortnight ago Wyoming's Senator Lester C. (for Callaway) Hunt, 61, completed a lengthy hospital checkup, announced that because of ill health (a kidney ailment) he would not run again. One morning last week, Hunt entered the Senate Office Building, his coat partially cloaking a .22-cal. Winchester rifle. In his office, Hunt sat down in the swivel chair behind his desk and fired a shot through his brain. Four hours later, after emergency surgery failed, Lester Hunt was dead...
...Jaime Patino, "had taken everything-all her clothes, her jewels and my jewels -and gone." In Yugoslavia, on official invitation from Marshal Tito's government, Harold C. McClellan, president of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers, rubbed shoulders with the country's Communists for a fortnight, browsed through Titoland's economy, then headed home with a backward glance surprising for a capitalist. Said he: "These people believe they will eventually get all the bugs out of their system. I don't believe they will, but nobody's going to tell 'em ... They...