Word: fortnights
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...Fortnight ago, McCone was again in Washington to discuss atomic testing problems with Pentagon officials when he was asked to an early evening White House conference. In the quiet of his second-floor study, President Kennedy asked McCone to take the CIA post. McCone asked for a week to think it over, went back home to San Marino to talk the job over with his wife Rosemary, then called in his acceptance...
...agency, operating out of the State Department building, ACADA has long been a pet Kennedy project. Appalled that only about 75 people in the U.S. Government were at work on disarmament planning under Eisenhower, Kennedy set out to create a specific agency for the work, got congressional approval a fortnight...
...After a fortnight in communion with nature in the Outer Mongolian wilderness, Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas, 62, deplaned in Moscow with a knapsack full of obiter dicta. Noting that the Ulan Bator intelligentsia is "starved for contact with the West" and that "the Russians are doing a wonderful public relations job for themselves" there, the outspoken jurist urged a U.S. counter-push, starting with instant diplomatic recognition...
...diplomat's parking ticket with the New York police, arrange the cleaning of the 5,400 windows at U.N. headquarters, send food to famine areas, or mediate a Middle East war threat with the same dispassionate precision. But in a rare lapse, as he left for the Congo fortnight ago, Hammarskjold had failed to designate an Acting Secretary-General to run the shop in his absence...
Unfazed by an unprecedented fuel-pressure failure at launch, top Test Pilot Joe Walker hot-rocketed his stub-winged X-15 to a record-setting 3,645 m.p.h. When he finally set down at Rogers Dry Lake, Calif., the indomitable father of four (the latest born fortnight ago) opined that one of the plane's bugs, originally diagnosed as heat condensation, was actually only the "scorching of paint inside the canopy." Skin temperature of the X-15 at the height of Walker's "by guess and by gosh" flight: a toasty...