Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CALLAHAN Captain, U.S.A. Fort Riley, Kans...
...Triomphe, De Gaulle paused briefly to rekindle the flame at the tomb of France's unknown soldier. Then, re-entering his car, he moved on across the Seine to Mont Valérien, a historic fort that overlooks a tiny, sandy valley where 4,000 Frenchmen were executed during the Nazi occupation. His face working with emotion, De Gaulle relit the flame of the resistance, prayed for a few moments at the tomb of the 16 resistance heroes buried in the fort. When at last the defiant strains of the Marseillaise rolled out over the valley, there was unabashed...
...left rioting Venezuela in saddened haste, he flew to San Juan. That night he spent 40 minutes wading four blocks through cheering Puerto Ricans ("Arriba Nixon!") to the wrought-iron gates of 400-year-old La Fortaleza, where Muñoz gave him a state dinner in the ancient fort's great candlelit dining room. Said Nixon: "I couldn't think of a better place to be." Said Muñoz: "Mr. Vice President, está en su casa [you are in your house...
...playing fields of Hollywood, where he dazzled Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kim Novak and Joan Collins with chinchilla, Mercedes-Benz convertibles and diamond bracelets, Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 29, lost a somewhat less entrancing war in Kansas. From the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, which Ramfis attended in between nightclub-commando exercises, came the word: the young general "did not successfully complete the course." Lest Ramfis lose himself in remorse, kindly Uncle Héctor Trujillo, figurehead President of the Dominican Republic, provided a nice nongraduation present: appointment to the newly created post...
Merom Brachman '58, of Lowell House and Fort Worth, Texas, and Richard W. Dixon '58, of Adams House and Woodburn, Oregon, were announced yesterday as recipients of Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowships...