Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even when they live outdoors for days on end with only tents for shelter, men can prove more rugged than their machines. Last week 6,000 weary G.I.s trekked back to the warmth of barracks after a fortnight of war games across 642,000 acres of frozen Alaskan muskeg 128 miles below the Arctic Circle. Though they were engaged in the coldest winter maneuvers on record, only eight soldiers had been hospitalized briefly for frostbite and 46 others treated for minor freezing pains (six men died in accidents not connected with the cold). At the same time, 100 cold-soaked...
...diplomatic reception; the guests were served champagne and church-social punch. During the past eight years, the White House was a slightly manic mansion, with friends, newsmen, relatives, and buddies from old political and real wars bustling in and out. Among the Nixons' guests during their first fortnight were a few personal friends of long standing, such as J. Edgar Hoover, and some social monuments like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 84, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter. Instead of traipsing through Georgetown or the Virginia suburbs on evenings or weekends when the White House was quiet, the Nixons have been dining...
...abuse there and could locate no major military threat. At the same time, Saigon claimed that, despite the understanding that cities should not be hit, the Communists had shelled 98 civilian areas in the first two weeks since the halt-five times as heavy a bombardment as in the fortnight preceding it. Such statistics would clearly be useful to Thieu if he wanted further justification for boycotting the talks...
...teachers be let back into Ocean Hill when classes opened last month. He struck to win his point, then struck again when returning teachers were harassed by the black community. Dissatisfied, he said, with the city's guarantees for their safety, he struck yet a third time a fortnight ago. Nothing would end the impasse, he vowed, but the dismissal of the Ocean Hill board and Rhody McCoy, the local administrator-in other words, an effective end to the troublesome decentralization experiment. "This strike is not going to be broken," Shanker said last week. "We're going...
Good Shot. The advent of balmier times was epitomized a fortnight ago, when Shriver was a guest at De Gaulle's semiannual pheasant shoot at the presidential chateau in Rambouillet, an hour from Paris. Shriver downed two birds in a row as the general watched closely from behind. Each time, De Gaulle exclaimed: "Good shot!" Shriver missed once, then hit a bird that plopped to the ground barely a yard from De Gaulle. "Splendid!" the general roared. "A present for you, M. le Président," responded Shriver, offering his host the fallen pheasant...