Word: fortnights
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...innate curiosity and passion of the young for novelties. The bulk of Spain's people-including many of Franco's own supporters-are restive. They would like to form political parties other than Franco's moribund Falange, and they already operate underground parties. In the past fortnight the black letter P has appeared on the walls of Barcelona. It stands for protesto, and was put there by Catholics who want the right to organize a public Christian Democratic Party...
...file rebel with no union post, forced the government to agree to union elections that swept Vallejo into office (TIME, Aug. 18). A second strike in February collapsed after ten hours, but most lines of the federal railway system paid off with a 16⅔% wage increase anyway. Fortnight ago Vallejo demanded the same raise plus fringe benefits for the 5,000 workers on the Mexico City-Veracruz line and the 8,000 on the Nogales-Guadalajara run. He pulled them out and ordered 60,000 other railroadmen to stage a series of one-hour sympathy shutdowns...
...Boston's aging (40), terrible-tempered Slugger Ted Williams, the coming of spring carries inevitable splinters of physical woe. Last week, a fortnight after he first winced at a pain in the shoulder, Red Sox Star Williams shambled glumly into Boston's Lahey Clinic. Doctors studied his pinched nerve, began treatments. Ever-hopeful Ted, who has been benched almost a dozen times in his long career by such ills as a broken collarbone, a fractured elbow, ankle sprains and virus attacks, hoped to be at the season's opener, April...
...hotspots. They require only beer and the beach. "It's not that we drink so much," one Notre Dame senior explained sudsily. "It's just that we drink all the time." Cops check identification as carefully as they can, but there were few students in the last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were 21. The owner of a joint called Porky's rashly advertised a bargain rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue...
West Germany's government took another stride toward making good on Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard's belief that a free-enterprising government should not be in big business. On public sale fortnight ago went a sizable block of stock in one of the 300 nationalized companies inherited by the government after World War II: 300,000 shares of the big (1958 sales estimate: $178 million) Preussag mining combine, whose activities range from coal mining to oil refining. The government took the step with some misgivings: a 1958 poll seemed to indicate that 40% of all Germans had little...