Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Lines arranged to borrow $200 million from eight life-insurance companies until 1990; two weeks ago, Trans World Airlines negotiated $324.6 million of new loans from banks and insurance companies as part of a record $800.2 million package that includes refinancing $475.6 million of outstanding debts. Thus within a fortnight, three of the nation's four largest trunk carriers tapped the tightening money market for some $700 million in fresh funds. Cost Squeeze. Almost all of that bundle will go to pay for stretched jet transports, jumbo jets and supersonic aircraft already on order. Scheduled U.S. airlines last year...