Word: fortnights
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...Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan; 2) the deployment of U.S. forces to Lebanon to protect a small government against threats of subversion was being accepted in the Middle East as the most significant display of Western strength and determination since Korea; 3) U.S. policies over the last fortnight, far from alienating world opinion, had brought the Western nations closer together than they had been for years, and seriously impressed staunch Western friends among the newly independent countries...
...defenses; 4) world Communism had been shown that the U.S. was not deterred by Russian rocket rattling from deploying into the Middle East, and Middle East military men could not help noticing that the Russians had notably not intervened. To Nasser, in Moscow after the Iraq revolt last fortnight, Khrushchev boasted that he had weapons that could turn the Sixth Fleet into "coffins of molten steel for its sailors," but Khrushchev's Security Chief Ivan Serov nonetheless warned Nasser to fly home overland, because "your plane dare not fly over the sea because they could shoot it down with...
...mixture of rocket-rattling boasts by Nikita Khrushchev and of policeman's caution by his head cop, Ivan Serov, in the Nasser-Khrushchev huddle in the Kremlin a fortnight ago undoubtedly underlined for Gamal Abdel Nasser one fact: the U.S. arrival in the Middle East was a big new event that outweighs Moscow's words...
...fair sample was the show's opening last fortnight in Madrid's newly founded Museo de Arte Contemporaneo. On hand to do the honors was U.S. Ambassador John Davis Lodge, who tried his best to make polite noises as he was led from one sprawling canvas to the next, fled 45 minutes after he arrived. One distinguished Spaniard, steeped in the traditions of El Greco and Velasquez, asked: "If this is art, what was it that Goya painted? You certainly can't compare the two." The abrupt reply from a partisan of the show...
...program's chief architect is C. Douglas Dillon, 48, onetime chairman of Dillon, Read & Co., investment bankers, who was promoted fortnight ago to the rank of U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Dillon's first objective: an increase in the reserves of the International Monetary Fund, which have not been raised generally since the fund was created in 1944, although inflation and rising world trade have cut in half the fund's effectiveness in keeping world currencies in balance. Although the fund squeaked through the currency crisis at the time of Suez, many fear that...