Word: fortnightlies
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...treat soccer as a form of refereed tribal warfare. Nigeria once upbraided a Ghanaian team for hexing the Nigerian goalie with black magic. In 1959 a game in the Belgian Congo between the Luluas and the Balubas touched off a three-day war in which 20 people were killed. Fortnight ago, the former French colony of Gabon sent a team to Brazzaville in the neighboring ex-French Congo* for a game of soccer. The toll so far: nine dead, 70 injured, and several thousand citizens transformed into refugees...
...evil spirits refused to do a fadeout. The last straw for Nkrumah was the bombing fortnight ago of a torchlight parade that was celebrating an event close to his heart-his own 53rd birthday. Osagyefo was nowhere near the blasts, but they jolted him into declaring a state of emergency "to rid Accra, and indeed Ghana, of such acts of savagery." Troops with tommy guns and light tanks guarded the approaches to Flagstaff House where Nkrumah, afraid to appear in public, has made himself a virtual prisoner...
...faith healer, as loyal TV watchers know, is likely to be a hot-eyed spellbinder, his eye cocked to the collection plate and his theology about as solidly grounded as his gospel tent. But in Philadelphia a fortnight ago, the suffering who came forward to be healed-a retarded girl of about six, an old man with an ugly facial growth-received a blessing as dignified as the setting: 139-year-old St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. "This is no hocus-pocus," said St. Stephen's Rector Alfred Price from the pulpit. "This is a sacrament...
...gets full blame for stepping in as Piel's advertising manager and personally ordering the jarring jingles. Outraged at his lack of taste-and perhaps by Piel's disappointing sales-Bert and Harry now want to return with a popular mandate. To pave the way, Y. & R. fortnight ago took the first of a series of 30-second radio spots purporting to be "paid political announcements" sponsored by the "Citizens' Committee to Bring Back Bert and Harry Piel...
...only a matter of time before the unemployed Deputies were clamoring to get back in. Fortnight ago, President Nazem El-Koudsi and veteran politician Khaled El-Azm, a nimble opportunist who has served as Premier four times since 1941, boldly called the dissolved Parliament back into session...