Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cops arrested Duarte, 35, who identified himself as one of three Cubans robbed last October at Fort Worth of $240,000 which they said Prio had given them to buy arms. Duarte, Manheim and two alleged accomplices were booked for illegal possession of bombs. In Miami, Prio denied any connection with the arms dump or the plot. In Havana, Batista arrested ten retired naval officers for questioning...
...Arkansas for 17 years, was once pastor of Dallas' roomy First Methodist Church (membership: 5,200). Elected a bishop in 1938, he presided over the Pacific Area (1939), then the Kansas-Nebraska Area (1939-48) of the Methodist Church. Since 1948 has been resident bishop of the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, a stronghold of U.S. Methodism. Already a vice president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, he is also scheduled to become presiding bishop of the Methodist Church next year...
...disclaimer, when asked whether he avoids smokers and drinkers: "You'd sure have to do a lot of detouring in America today.") He is an able and unruffled administrator who sets a fast pace. On a recent Sunday, he preached twice in the morning at a church in Fort Worth and once each at two churches in nearby Arlington that afternoon and evening...
...which, at the touch of a button, sinks slowly through the floor into a huge vault in the cellar. The 50-ton safe, a bombproof, thiefproof, fireproof stronghold with 15-in. thick walls and 5-ton armored doors will keep the historic documents as safe as the gold in Fort Knox. By day, the documents will be on exhibition; at night, they will repose in the $30,000 vault built by the Mosler Safe Co., "the biggest-and trickiest-safe in the world...
Hidden Assets. By taking on such jobs, the 104-year-old Mosler Safe Co. has become the world's largest safemaker. It built the huge vaults at Fort Knox, designed the complex system of precision locks which close the cell blocks of Alcatraz Prison. So many Tokyo banks installed Mosler's vaults that when the U.S. Army was searching for hidden hoards of Japanese gold and securities, Mosler could give them all the detailed floor plans they needed as well as shrewd hints where to look...