Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the marshes of southern Louisiana 14 months ago, an oil-drilling rig was towed into position and a 20-in. drill casing firmly planted in the muck. Fort Worth Oil Drillers Sid Richardson and Perry Bass, in a joint project with Freeport Sulphur Co. and Houston Oilman John W. Mecom, started drilling with high hopes of tapping a new field near Louisiana's rich Lake Washington field. But as the drill bit downward-to 5,000 feet, 10,000 feet, 15,000 feet-their hopes sank as fast as their costs rose. Drillers had to battle hole temperatures...
Married. Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, 21, granddaughter of F.D.R., daughter of Elliott, now a Colorado rancher; and Henry D. Lindsley III, 27, Midland, Texas oilman; in Fort Worth...
Maestro. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Patrolman Ed MacNeil spotted four-year-old Aubrey H. Osborne Jr. driving casually along in a model T Ford, watched openmouthed as Aubrey parked perfectly after being signaled to the curb, wrote out a ticket to the boy's father, who protested: "Why, he's been driving for two years...
...scarcely more than three years later, the Observatory is today dedicating the largest radio telescope in this hemisphere, taking an active part in planning still larger ones, operating or planning stations in Sunspot, New Mexico, and Fort Davis, Texas, and in general showing the greatest activity in its history...
...Force is also cooperating on construction of a 28-foot radio telescope near Fort Davis, Texas, to study solar radio noise...