Word: fortnights
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...refugees waved and cheered from overcrowded trucks; thousands of them stampeded joyfully down the gangways of rusty ships docked at Ghana's port of Tema. They were home after an often brutal fortnight spent in flight from Nigeria, more than 200 miles to the east. Along with workers from other nearby countries, the Ghanaians had been made scapegoats for Nigeria's formidable economic problems, and last month the Nigerian authorities gave them just two weeks to leave the country. Terrorized by fear of reprisals if they stayed, more than 500,000 Ghanaians braved beatings, bureaucratic delays and dwindling...
...from being bought by Martin Marietta, Agee turned to Hennessy, and after four whirlwind days of talks they agreed to merge. Agee got a promise that he would be president of Allied, but his future duties were not settled. Shortly after the merger was officially approved by stockholders a fortnight ago, Hennessy forced the resignation of Alonzo McDonald, who had been Agee's second in command at Bendix. Then Hennessy told Agee that Allied was looking for someone else to be chief operating officer, the second-ranking post, after chief executive...
...spot markets for oil, where tanker-size shipments are traded on a day-to-day basis, normally bustle with buying and selling. Last week, however, they seemed almost paralyzed by uncertainty. Only a fortnight ago, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had failed to reach agreement on a plan to prop up oil prices by curbing production. That dramatic breakdown induced a kind of suspended animation. The cost of crude seemed sure to fall, but no one could be certain how far or how fast. While a few oil producers made their opening moves last week, others held back...
...Lady Ottoline Morrell's parties. Here is George Orwell, with his face of "haggard nobility"; Novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, "clever, sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, close-lipped"; and Rose Macaulay, telling a friend at the end of her life, "I think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame...
...have been the most compelling performance of her career, but Elizabeth Taylor's "mission of peace and understanding in the Middle East" closed out of town last week. In and out of hospitals since arriving in Israel a fortnight ago-first for a breathing problem, then following a minor car accident-the actress, surrounded by her courtiers, braved her way through early rounds of meetings with a professional élan that would have warmed the heart of Eleonora Duse or, for that matter, Philip Habib. Swathed in a neck brace and with bandaged leg and finger, Taylor, looking...