Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mystic Shrine marched for three hours). They poured by the thousands over the central plains, coursing over highways that shouted with signs ("See Harold Warp's Pioneer Village at Minden, Nebraska," and "SNAKES!"), conjured up technicolor dreams as they stood in the weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under the flapping flag of the most important post of Western frontier days. And few who took highway 340 through the staid Amish community of Intercourse, Pa. (just three miles this side of Paradise-pop. 549) missed the chance to mail some sure-laugh postcards...
...various shooting scrapes. He owns real estate, a newspaper and a steel-gated house, and he has boasted that he could hold it against a siege. One morning last week while Tenorio was away, 200 troops rolled up in armored trucks, with bazookas and machine guns, and cracked the fort without a shot. Tenorio's henchmen opened the doors, the troops marched in, ransacked the house and confiscated three pistols, two rifles and three machine guns. Another detail broke into Tenorio's apartment, seized more arms...
...interested in loaning us money after seeing our books," says Jack Ayer of Trans-Texas Airways, which has never declared a dividend, last year netted barely $10,000 on operating revenues of $5,997,000. Almost every other feeder is in the same squeeze. When Central Airlines asked the Fort Worth National Bank for more than $2,000,000 to replace its DC-35, the bank could only take a sternly "dim view"; Central has already been to the bank 107 times since 1949, is still in the red. To buy a needed old DC-4, Alaska's Reeve...
...appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which is as old as the world itself." A new relationship develops in which Rene finds that Ilouhi can "have the same sort of dreams as a white woman," but in the ef fort to share her thoughts and influence her mind he finds that she is "slowly lead ing me back to primitive ideas and in stincts." Fascinated but also scared, the Frenchman writes : "No European woman had ever played the same part in my life." Another Age. The distinguishing qual...
...Pentagon's inner courtyard one day last week, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available free to electronics firms...