Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Belvoir...
Barrels & Boulders. Into Blantyre he sent four Dakota DC-3 planes carrying troops from the white Royal Rhodesia Regiment; two battalions of the black King's African Rifles soon followed. After one plane landed at Fort Hill, near Karonga, the nationalists covered the airfield with barrels, stumps and boulders, effectively putting it out of action. In Blantyre police and rioters collided in the streets, and blacks, hiding in the tall grass along a stretch of road that was promptly tagged the Missile Mile, ambushed and stoned cars. At Lilongwe the King's African Rifles fired on a crowd...
...same direction. Eight Cantabrigians who will set out in June for Arguin Island, off the Atlantic coast of French West Africa, in a 15-ton ketch called Daisy of Maldon, plan to do hydrographic surveys for the Admiralty, poke archaeologically at a 18th century Portuguese fort, skindive for wrecks, and test the effects of a four-man jazz combo on African ears. "Also," says Expedition Leader Anthony Churchill (no kin), "we may try distilling gin from seaweed." Oxford's Exploration Club is sending out a group which will exhaustively classify the flora and fauna in a mountain-locked Tanganyika...
Left to hold the battered fort, Mother worries--worries that her husband will be gypped in the big city, that daughter Durga is stealing necklaces from the neighbors, that son Apu is getting neither enough to eat nor enough to read. Rounding out the family is Old Auntie, who must be at least an octogenarian...
...Baltimore's Phyllis Frankel, a singer who studied for an operatic career with famed Soprano Rosa Ponselle, has appeared with New York City Opera. Then the title-role tenor came down with laryngitis during dress rehearsal, was replaced by Mallory Walker, a 23-year-old soldier from Fort Myer, Va., where he is singing in the U.S. Army Chorus. Walker had never sung the Rake role before but had learned it as understudy, hopes to become a professional singer after he gets out of the Army. Finally, Tenor Hugues Cuenod lost his voice, responded enough to frantic, last-minute...