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...those people who wonder why they have never been interviewed by a Gallup pollster, Gallup has worked out a mathematical answer: at 3,000 interviews a fortnight, it would take him 450 years to get around to everybody...
...Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Brazil, The Netherlands and Italy (where the Doxa pollsters called the Communist vote within 4% a fortnight...
...Dutra asked his Congress to 1) hand civilian violators of national security over to military courts; 2) require loyalty pledges from all government employees. A wave of Communist-led strikes, railway sabotage and an explosion in a military arsenal that killed 32 had Brazilians worried. But in the last fortnight, police had rounded up 300 comrades, including the biting & scratching sister of Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. Brother Luis, who had been in hiding for months, was reported to have escaped to neighboring Uruguay. If he had, the Uruguayans did not know...
What had made life so new and different for the Turners? Last fortnight Mr. Turner, by naming a song that was being played on ABC's Stop the Music, won $17,000 worth of prizes...
Shortly before 1 p.m., a light rain swept across Bogotá, wetting the columns of the Capitolio. There the ninth International Conference of American States had been in session for a fortnight on matters of high moment to the hemisphere-the industrial upbuilding of Latin America, the problem of Communism in the Americas. As the rain began to fall, most meetings adjourned for lunch...