Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Education: High school in Red Wing, Minn. (pop. 10,645); planned to study law, but became interested in the Army when he tagged along with his father to Fort Riley, Kans. on church business; graduated 139th (weak in science and mathematics) in the 1930 class at West Point; went off to flight training in the Army Air Corps...
...Fort Pierce...
Awarded by the Air Force to Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. were competitive contracts for the development of air frames capable of carrying atomic engines. Lockheed will conduct its program at a giant new installation in Georgia; Convair will continue work at its Fort Worth plant, where it began such research in 1951. The winner of the competition will presumably get a production contract...
...Beefed up with young talent and a brand new coach (George Senesky), the Philadelphia Warriors came back from three straight years in the cellar of the Eastern Division of the National Basketball Association to take four out of five games from the Fort Wayne Pistons and win the world professional championship...
...systems of city planning and redevelopment in four large United States cities were considered in the afternoon. Victor Grulen, noted architect, spoke on the plans for Fort Worth, Texas. The proposed reorganization of this city would radically revise the downtown business center...