Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly body in the way of Administration proposals. He persisted in his ways even after he became a half-lame duck by deciding to resign from the Senate and run for Governor of California next November. And his poor showing in California's popularity-poll primaries last fortnight failed to subdue him. Hours after he got back to Washington he blocked the Administration on the issue of aid to Communist satellites (TIME, June...
Except for growling by Arizona's labor-baiting Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, an almost millennial peace marked the early days of the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill. After the Senate Labor Committee voted it out a fortnight ago by a bipartisan margin of 12 to Goldwater, nobody in Washington took up Goldwater's cry that the bill was "milk toast." Labor chieftains kept a discreet silence-understandably, since Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy had consulted A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass while he was drafting the bill...
...Fortnight ago in Florida, an auto accident leveled tragedy on Suzy's life. Her father was killed; Suzy's arms were broken. At the hospital, where she thought she might be dying, Suzy gave her name as Mrs. Pierre de la Salle. From Manhattan, Pierre de la Salle. 28 or thereabouts, raced to Florida. When newsmen caught up with him, he repeatedly denied that he was married to Suzy, although he of course conceded that she is a "dear friend" with whom he shares an apartment. "A tremendous apartment," he explained simply. But newsmen pressed on, uncovered...
Early last week, determined to get power back into their own hands, the die-hards prepared a parliamentary mousetrap for Paratroop General Jacques Massu, who had pledged his soldierly loyalty to De Gaulle on De Gaulle's visit to Algiers a fortnight ago. By careful prearrangement, a decoy faction among the diehards noisily proposed that the junta adopt a resolution denouncing De Gaulle and all his works. When Massu, as co-president of the junta, protested, the remainder of the diehards introduced a "moderate" counter-resolution. And when the decoy faction grumblingly accepted the second resolution, Massu was convinced...
Signs of Hope. There was no doubt that the Nixon attacks had a great deal to do with it. Only a fortnight ago, Panamanian President Ernesto de la Guardia managed to halt antigovernment student riots that had been going on for ten days. And only six weeks ago, demonstrating students invaded the U.S. Canal Zone and hoisted Panamanian flags to dramatize sovereignty claims. In Guatemala Communists, once held firmly in check by the late President Carlos Castillo Armas, are again able to cause trouble...