Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with McNamara. While McDonald is popular, the manner of Anderson's ousting was hardly calculated to raise Navy morale. No sooner had McDonald assumed his new post than Navy Secretary Fred Korth was fired-for writing letters on his official stationery concerning business for his old employer in Fort Worth, the Continental National Bank. Whatever his faults, the admirals thought that Korth was on their side. Korth's successor, Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze, has already been forced onto the defensive, even before being confirmed as Navy Secretary. The Senate Armed Services Committee last week barraged Nitze...
...this year. Now Grace is driving Fruehauf in new directions: recently it has begun to lease trailers, build freight cars and materials handling systems. A wiry Texan who has a disconcerting habit of juggling a tennis ball while he talks, Grace started as a male secretary in a small Fort Worth trailer company, made himself a millionaire in oil, cattle, real estate...
...launched his guerrilla-style campaign against the Binh Xuyen bandits. He also helped Diem in his campaign to subdue two fanatic, rebellious religious sects, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai. After a second training tour abroad-this one at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, where he picked up serviceable English-Minh in 1958 was chosen by Diem to be the first boss of a field operations command to coordinate the mounting war against Communist Viet Cong guerrillas...
Traveling Light. The nexus of activity was Fort Hood, Texas, home of the 2nd Armored. The "Hell on Wheels" outfit lived up to its name in Germany in 1945, when it bridged the Rhine in seven hours under heavy fire and began the race to Berlin. Some of the soldiers in Big Lift had not even been born then, and for two weeks before the operation began, all traffic signs at Fort Hood bore identical English and German phrases for the benefit of young tankers and truck drivers...
...night, a fleet of 70 chartered buses shuttled the G.I.s across the flat, dusty Texas plains to four nearby air-bases. So tight was the schedule they followed that on the 75-minute trip from Fort Hood to Bergstrom, precisely eleven minutes were allowed for stop lights. In groups of 70 or 80, perspiring soldiers in itchy o.d.s tramped up the ramps; inside the windowless cargo planes the temperature hit 110°, and the men shucked shirts and even T shirts until they were airborne and began cooling...