Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half a dozen State Department officials, stepped out in top hat and tails for the formal White House dinner for diplomats. Everywhere he went, he displayed...
...Bunsen burner, Pierre Poitrinal, 17, answered question after question on Radio Luxembourg's Quitte ou Double, the Gallic Double or Nothing that is Europe's most popular French-language radio quiz. When he was through talking of ekasilicon and the halides of uranium a fortnight ago, Pierre had won 2,048,000 francs ($4,876.19) and was still going strong...
...Sept. 20, 1956, the first Jupiter-C was ready for firing at Cape Canaveral. It was a four-stage missile, with even a dummy fourth-stage satellite configuration-just like the bird that last fortnight put Explorer into orbit. By this time, Pentagon brass had a notion that Von Braun might be trying to beat the Navy into space with an unauthorized-and presumably undignified-major satellite. The Army, which had had the foresight to bring Von Braun and his team to the U.S. in the first place, and which had supported him all along in the face of awesome...
...auxiliary, a group called the Opti-Mrs. Together, they decided to help Lydia Dean. They passed the hat, ran notices in the newspapers, collected a defense fund of more than $2,000 from as far away as Florida. By the time the trial began in Venango County a fortnight ago, the whole of western Pennsylvania knew Lydia Dean's story; she had been done wrong...
Amid such feminine confusion confidently strode the most influential fashion reporter in Paris: lanky, dimpled Princetonian John Fairchild. 30. European director of his family's Fairchild Publications, Inc. Fairchild had scored a beat on the openings by predicting fortnight ago in his company's fashion-conscious Women's Wear Daily that "the 1958 woman will wear shorter skirts than last season . . . The chemise [sack] is here to stay, but with new slim or wider versions...