Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With reference to your article on Paratrooper Flugum's death during training at Fort Bragg, N.C.: this incident has been the topic of discussion by many paratroopers who have constantly wondered why in Heaven's name somebody did not cut Flugum loose from the plane and let him pull his reserve. Most of us carry a knife with us for such a specific purpose...
...Fort Lauderdale's 18-hole municipal golf course, a choice piece of Florida real estate, has been appraised at a cool million dollars. But last week the city commissioners, by a 3-to-2 vote, knocked down the course for $562,400 to the Fort Lauderdale Men's Golf Association, which will henceforth run it as a restricted private club. Reason: a Negro foursome, denied permission to play, had won a Federal Court order to open the course to Negroes...
After the sale Fort Lauderdale golfers heard unhappily that greens fees ($1.50 in summer, $3 in winter) will soon be raised to cover taxes, improvements, and a ten-year $373,400 mortgage. Unhappy also was the city's young (30) Mayor John V. Russell, who voted against the sale, pointed .to other Southern cities, where Negroes seldom appear on integrated courses. Outspoken Mayor Russell outlined a problem worrying many another Dixie city official: "A handful of Negroes can put us out of the recreation business entirely. We have miles of public beaches, a swimming pool, and the finest marina...
Showing it off last week at Fort Worth, Texas, Air Force officers happily hinted that the Hustler's performance was forcing a flurry of tactical recalculations. It has flown at Mach 2-twice the speed of sound (Mach 2 at 40,000 ft. is 1,300 m.p.h.). A few ultramodern U.S. fighters may be faster in short spurts, but they would have trouble climbing from the ground in time to catch a Hustler at high altitude. Supersonic F-102 fighters must use their afterburners, at heavy cost in fuel, to stay anywhere near it. Even many rocket-pushed missiles...
...land under lease, Pacific Petroleums' McMahon announced two more wells in the Peace River Boundary Lake region, one producing gas, the other oil. Eight other Peace River wells have already come in this year, boosting the company's holdings to an estimated $70 million. And at Fort St. John, McMahon is busy building a $2,500,000 housing development for the expanding crews of both his Pacific Petroleums and Westcoast Transmission Co. All told, his personal fortune is currently estimated at $200 million, and the assets he controls in partnership with other promoters total something close...