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...Great Adventure. Placing notices with the American Federation of Teachers and an academic job registry in Washington, the officials demanded basic knowledge of German. They offered modest $530-$700 monthly salaries (compared with the U.S. yearly average of $9,300) and two-year contracts. With-in a fortnight, Hamburg had 500 applicants. Of the 100 who subsequently got firm offers, 84 signed up. All have previously been teachers at the college level. About half have master's degrees; the rest are Ph.D.s, no less...
...been stifling, so chilled vichyssoise straight from the can seemed like the perfect dish when Banker Sam Cochran, 61, and his wife Grace, 63, sat down to dinner at their Bedford Village, N.Y., home a fortnight ago. But they did not finish their shallow bowls of cold soup. It tasted spoiled, Mrs. Cochran later told their doctor...
...AFTER a fortnight of legal fencing, the showdown shaped up late last week before the U.S. Supreme Court. A Government bent on preserving secrets for the sake of national security faced a press determined to print the facts as laid down in the now-celebrated Pentagon papers. All week long, the Government fought a running battle with restraining orders against two of the country's most respected newspapers. Attorneys for the New York Times and the Washington Post pounded away at the seldom-invoked practice of "prior restraint," arguing that the public's right to know...
...cross the border from India into East Pakistan, where he visited the embattled town of Kushtia (pop. 35,000). After extensive interviews with townspeople and captured West Pakistani troopers, Coggins was able to reconstruct an account of brutality and bravery that took place in Kushtia during the first fortnight of the civil war. His report...
Fast Eddie meets Tricia. From adolescent scorn to the American Dream. They meet at the Chapin School Christmas dance in 1963, and after a short seven-year courtship the romance has bloomed. She visits him for a weekend every fortnight at Harvard. (His apartment is conveniently across the street from the Holiday Inn where Tricia can rest, safe from temptation...