Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second time in a fortnight, John Foster Dulles made a radio & television report to the U.S. people. In his first message, the Secretary of State had frankly warned that the U.S. would have to reconsider its policy of aid to Europe if the Continental neighbors did not unite effectively in their common defense (TIME, Feb. 9). Then he had hurried off abroad to look, talk and listen...
...their very own barbershop not far off the Senate floor, U.S. Senators can get free haircuts, shaves and shoeshines. Their needs are cared for with a smile by three barbers, a shoeshine boy and a porter, all on steady Government salaries. Last fortnight the root of all evil temporarily upset this happy situation...
Keith Jacobsen became a husky 17-year-old who lived, like many of his friends, for little but the challenge of the peaks. A fortnight ago, just after dawn, he climbed out of an automobile at the summit of Washington's crag-hung Snoqualmie Pass. He slipped on his pack, snapped on his skis and, with two teen-age pals behind him, set off on an overnight climb to Snow -Lake in the untracked high Cascades. The boys toiled steadily; by half past twelve they had passed through a draw at 4,200 feet and were beginning the last...
World-Record Program. "Marvelous Mal" never runs a poor race, win or lose. Fortnight ago in Boston, he equaled the world indoor record of 1:10.2 for 600 yards (TIME, Feb. 9), but his deceptively effortless stride made it appear that he could have done even better. An official criticized him for not breaking the record, accused him of not trying. Ordinarily good-natured and tractable, Whitfield later bristled: "What did he want, blood...
...past fortnight it has been Boston's turn to watch Cantelli at work leading its famed symphony as guest conductor. Bostonians saw a slim, dark-haired man who seldom used an excessive gesture, but who drew from his orchestra music of clarity and fire. "Hats off, gentlemen, a conductor!" cried the critic of the Boston Post at the top of his review. "There can be no shadow of a doubt," said the Herald critic, "that Guido Cantelli belongs in the very first rank of the orchestral conductors of our time...