Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July, Owen returned to Viet Nam. As an adviser to that nation's Revolutionary Development Program, he was assigned to work with villagers in Viet Cong-infested Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. Fortnight ago, Owen and three other Americans volunteered to drive from Quang Ngai City four miles to a coastal hamlet to warn U.S. and Vietnamese co-workers that Viet Cong had attacked the city and were believed still to be lurking in the area. On the way back, the Jeep was ambushed. Taking cover in a cornfield, Owen and his companions were bombarded...
...South America, where ITT has had numerous political squabbles over its utilities operations, the company is selling off a few of its telephone companies; fortnight ago, Geneen's men reached agreement with the Peruvian government, which will buy the local ITT-run phone system in 1971. To further minimize reliance on government-related business, ITT has been diversifying abroad, acquiring computer-programming services, a lamp manufacturer and TV plants in Germany and France. Last week, in one of many "substantial acquisitions" foreseen by ITT-Europe Executive Vice President James V. Lester, the company added to the fold West Germany...
...potholed two-lane highway over which moves most of the food that the Delta now sends to Saigon. Explained Lieut. General Frederick C. Weyand, the U.S. Area Commander: "For every day the road is closed, the price of rice in Saigon goes up 10 piasters [20]." In the past fortnight, the Viet Cong concentrated three hard-core battalions near Route 4 and mined the road eight times, bringing traffic to a virtual stop. The V.C. were obviously trying to push up food prices just as the presidential campaign began...
...come this week, Henze, at 41, is presenting what amounts to a retrospective show: eleven pieces com posed between 1946 and 1965, including four premieres. It is all part of Dartmouth's five-year-old Congregation of the Arts, which each summer invites three composers to a fortnight of per forming, reviewing and explaining a representative sample of their music. Carlos Chavez, the late Zoltan Kodaly and Witold Lutoslawski are among past composers in residence; Frank Martin and Aaron Copland are Henze's predecessor and successor this year...
Equally encouraging to the President were the nice things being said about him by many of the same Democratic Governors who seemed ready to disown him only six months ago. Making a brief appearance at a meeting of 17 of the nation's 25 Democratic Governors a fortnight ago in St. Louis, Johnson heard assurances of party harmony and political support in '68. "What they said was music to my ears," he declared. Of the 17 Governors, only Georgia's Lester Maddox and Louisiana's John J. McKeithen declined to pledge their support for next year...