Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type. He was beginning to sag as a topic of conversation when Harry Truman came to his aid by injecting Joe into the Harry Dexter White case-in which McCarthy had had no part. Last week, with public hearings regarding Communism in the Army Signal Corps radar laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J., McCarthy was bouncing again...
Last October, while on his honeymoon in the West Indies, McCarthy learned that the Army had suspended several Fort Monmouth employees as "security risks." With that, the honeymoon was over. McCarthy flew to New York and " began closed hearings. Unidentified witnesses scuttled in and out, rumors of missing microfilm and sinister scientists filtered through, and from time to time McCarthy emerged with dark reports of a Communist espionage ring organized by Atom Spy Julius Rosenberg, which "may still be in existence" at Fort Monmouth...
Rats on Loan. In Fort Worth his museum was so successful that the city decided to put up a $500,000 model building. In Atlanta he organized a program by which hundreds of Scouts have learned about camping, handicrafts and the dangers of litterbugging and vandalism. In Sacramento. Calif., he not only started a museum but a pet library as well. Today, the museum keeps 237 hamsters, rats, snakes, guinea pigs, squirrels, rabbits and turtles which children can borrow for a week at a time...
Escape from Fort Bravo. High-styled horse opera, a worthy stablemate to Shane and High Noon; with William Holden, John Forsythe (TIME...
Possible espionage concerning Furry's work in the Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth; N.J., was supposed to be the topic of the investigation. McCarthy's current plan is to hold Furry's hearing in Boston along with the "sizeable number of persons" he intends to subpoena from "Project Lincoln" of Cambridge, the super-secret air force center, dealing with U.S. radur defenses...