Word: fortnights
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...fortnight's vacation in Monte Carlo, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, divided his time between painting and gambling, sun and sightseeing. Mornings he sat before his canvas in a ninth-floor studio of the Hôtel de Paris with a superb view of the Riviera coast and the Monaco yacht basin. Afternoons, he drove up in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes. Nights, Sir Winston sat for hours at a roulette table in the Monte Carlo Casino, as oblivious of the gawping tourists as an old but uncaged lion. Walking painfully, but refusing any helping hand, Churchill invariably carried...
...revolt started one morning a fortnight ago, when restless crowds began calling for food and denouncing Castro. Before long, thousands of people jammed seven blocks of the business district. When a loudspeaker truck appeared, urging all to go home, promising that food would soon be abundant, the mob overturned the truck, forced the driver to yell, "Down with Communism!" The riot was not quelled until crack troops arrived and occupied the town after sporadic shooting. The toll of wounded or dead is not known; an estimated 400 demonstrators were jailed...
Before going off for a fortnight's pre-campaign rest at his Canadian cottage, George Romney, 54, drew a firm line against stumping on Sunday during Michigan's coming gubernatorial race. The teetotaling Mormon, who recently resigned as American Motors boss, will reserve Sundays for "church and family." Democrats do not expect their incumbent Governor, John Swainson, to be quite that saintly, have scheduled a full list of Sunday appearances at church socials, firemen's outings and ward picnics...
...Minneapolis a fortnight ago. delegates to the annual convention of the Lutheran Free Church (membership: 90,000, largely Norwegian-Americans) voted 530 to 112 for merger with the big (2,365,000) American Lutheran Church-itself the product of an earlier alliance of three smaller churches. Dr. John Stensvaag, the Free Church's president, says that it can no longer afford the luxury of remaining a splinter group if it is "to go forward worthily in a manner good for the Kingdom." The American Lutheran Church will vote on the Free Church's application for membership...
...supermarkets that the Italians fondly call "the Americano stores"; the Americanos have brought down the price of pasta as much as 40%. In Belgium, Chicago's Jewel Tea and Antwerp's Grand Bazar company have combined to open eleven supermarkets in the past two years, and last fortnight announced plans to open four more. Not only do these Belgian markets dramatically undersell corner grocers (examples: 5? v. 8? for a cake of soap. 52? v. 70? for a pound of cheese), but they have added a new verb to the Flemish language. It is superen, and it means...