Word: fortnights
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Paradoxically, when a Negro riot ensued during his first Memphis march a fortnight ago, and Loeb (along with Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington) responded with state troopers and National Guardsmen, King felt that his nonviolent philosophy had been besmirched and wanted to withdraw. Only at the urging of his aides in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference did he consent to return...
...immediate task is to give the Democratic Party shock treatment of sufficient voltage to deny Lyndon Johnson a preconvention lock on the nomination. To this end, he double-timed through ten states last week, from Oregon to Indiana to Arizona, for a total of 15 in his first fortnight of candidacy. Bobby's travels were a smash...
...little uncertainty on the Minnesotan's part is thus understandable. Fortnight ago, he announced he would enter the South Dakota primary; last week he said maybe not. Kennedy strength has been growing there. At Bowdoin College, McCarthy said he would "favor" Johnson over Richard Nixon in the general election; later at Racine, he mused aloud that, if eliminated himself he might be neutral next fall. "I have a commitment," McCarthy cracked, "as chairman of the [Senate] subcommittee on Africa that I might honor at the time with a last great safari...
...Fortnight ago, Gitelson left the Vietnamese library he was building in Ba The and headed for a nearby village that had accidentally been bombed by American planes. At almost the same moment that a friend was accepting the award for him at Macalester in St. Paul, Minn., 8,500 miles away, David Gitelson was killed by the Viet Cong...
...fortnight ago, Patricia Cunningham gave birth to a full-term, 5-lb. 5-oz. girl. If she had had an infusion shortly before delivery, the baby might have been a bit high at birth. But she had had none; Beth Ann was sober and altogether normal...