Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Castro León as leader of the plotting airmen, and General Fuentes head army plotter. The arrests did not unduly alarm President Pérez Jiménez. At the reception, strutting and cocky because he had efficiently re-elected himself in a one-candidate plebiscite a fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 30), he announced an amnesty for the 3,000 oppositionists jailed during what had passed for an election campaign. Already free-and given 17 days to get out of the country-was Christian Socialist Rafael Caldera, who would have been the Catholic Party's candidate...
...After a fortnight's testimony on operations of the Teamsters Union in Tennessee, Arkansas' seasoned John McClellan was fed up. Snapped the chill-eyed chairman of the Senate Labor Rackets Investigating Committee:* "I do not think even the committee was prepared for the shocking pattern of viciousness, lawlessness and disregard for the laws of the land to which many witnesses have testified here." Sample testimony: Nashville Teamsters negotiated contracts with pile-driving fists; Knoxville Teamsters dynamited truckers who refused to bargain without NLRB elections; Chattanooga Teamsters bombed, burned and escaped the consequences by passing $20.000 in bribes that...
...progress. The Communist Huks are almost extinct. Though the economy could be strong and prosperous, the Philippines are now in the throes of a crisis. Dollar reserves are down 30% since January, and President Garcia has called on Filipinos to "retrench," asked the U.S. for a $100 million loan. Fortnight ago he sharply restricted imports and dollar credits, announced a new austerity program designed to stop the drain on foreign exchange and boost local production...
...house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest collection of permanently established floating crapshooters seen east of Las Vegas, plus dozens of big-time Miami Beach horseplayers...
...Captured within a fortnight after landing on Long Island and Florida beaches, and tried in secret by seven U.S. generals, six were executed, two were imprisoned...