Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koran orders all the faithful, except slaves, women without companions and those who cannot afford the journey, to make the hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in their lifetime. Last fortnight, as the season of the hajj drew near once again, more hajjis (pilgrims) than ever before-hajjis from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and most of the desert cities and oases of North Africa-followed the Koran's injunction and swarmed into the Lebanese city of Beirut,* the usual way-station on the road to Mecca. Each clutched in the voluminous folds of his ihram (the pilgrim...
...plug that leak in the commercial dikes. It sent a man to Moscow and obtained an "exclusive" contract to import Russian master tape recordings. Now, says the publisher, any unauthorized record release in this country will be a violation of its property rights. A fortnight ago, Leeds sent stern notes to U.S. record manufacturers: before releasing Soviet performances, they would have to sign up (and pay up) or face lawsuits...
...fortnight ago, at the mouth of a huge bottle-shaped abyss near the Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, Loubens and twelve other Belgian, French and British spelunkers! led by famed Belgian Physicist Max Cosyns, set out to break their own record. Their wives, resigned to indulging their husbands' odd vacation hobby, stayed together at a nearby hotel...
...naturalized American had jumped bail. Hvasta had been snatched from his job in the U.S. consulate in Bratislava in 1948 and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on an espionage charge. For six months Intelligence kept the story secret, in order not to help the Communists in their search. Fortnight ago the Czech Foreign Minister informed the U.S. of Hvasta's escape. In Munich the U.S. let Refugees Gavenda and Bures give their own estimate of Hvasta's chances. Said Bookkeeper Bures: "I think Hvasta is alive. Why should the Czechs say he was missing if he wasn...
...palmy Cuernavaca, resort town about 35 miles south of Mexico City, Mow bought a big house and hired four servants. A fortnight ago he rode in his Cadillac to Cuernavaca's cobbled shopping section to buy a straw hat. As he stepped out of the car door, five men grabbed him, flicked out police badges, whisked him back to his house. There they also arrested a slim, trim, two-toned blonde named Agnes Kelly, 31, who became Mow's secretary after giving up nightclub appearances and modeling in New York. While Mow fumed, the gumshoes searched his house...