Word: midweekly
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...midweek, Saigon was hit, suffering its first rocket attack since June 21. The rockets whooshed in during the early morning hours, and 19 of the 122-mm. projectiles hit in two salvos. Seventeen Vietnamese civilians and a Japanese correspondent were killed. The National Assembly building took two hits, but damage was so slight that the deputies met as usual...
...Brokers claimed that the sell-off was a delayed reaction to bad news concerning the Paris peace talks and the Czechoslovak-Russian confrontation, combined with an anticipated economic slowdown as a result of the 10% tax surcharge. Frederick Stahl, chairman of Standard & Poor's, suggested that the midweek closings themselves were partly responsible because they eroded investors' confidence in the mechanics of the market...
WHILE politics preoccupied the nation last week with the approach of the conventions, Lyndon Johnson's energies were absorbed by problems on two broad fronts of foreign policy. At midweek, he flew off to Honolulu to discuss the problem that one of the presidential candidates will undoubtedly find uppermost in his mind the day after inauguration-Viet Nam. Even as Johnson was conferring with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, the showdown over Czechoslovakia brought a sobering reminder that, for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. alike, Europe remains a potentially dangerous arena. It was also...
Reports of the imminent death of the Venice Biennale turn out to have been exaggerated. As soon as opening-day newsmen folded their notepads and shuttered their cameras, Venice's rebellious students hauled down their placards and disappeared. By midweek, most of the artists who had joined in the student protest quietly uncovered their works again, and crowds were thronging to the fairgrounds as in other years...
...mystic and so far well-justified faith in the explosive unpredictability of this year's politics. Emerging from six days of seclusion in his Washington house following Robert Kennedy's assassination, the Minnesotan slipped into the White House for a 40-minute conference with the President, in midweek flew to New York to take up the race again...