Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from television and radio broadcasts which might blot out solar signals. Although some man-made radiation does reach Cook Flat, the hills which rise 1500 feet above the valley's floor reduce this interference by a factor of over 100. Eight miles from Cook Flat is the town of Fort Davis (population 600), where the Harvard station has set up offices and dark-rooms for developing film records...
Indeed, McNamara and Korth did have policy differences. But these were not why Korth was fired. The real reason was that he had written letters on his official Navy Department stationery concerning business for Fort Worth's Continental National Bank, of which Korth was president before becoming Navy Secretary in 1961. Some of the letters are in possession of Senator John McClellan's investigating committee, which has been probing Korth's role in the controversial Defense Department award of the TFX fighter-aircraft contract to General Dynamics. Continental National was among 20 banks that had lent...
...Secretary before quitting to run successfully for Governor of Texas. An Assistant Secretary of the Army in 1952-53, Korth got the Navy job on the recommendation of Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and with the approval of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, for whom Korth once served as a Fort Worth campaign manager in a Senate election...
...which Algerian troops killed ten Moroccan soldiers, Hassan mobilized his crack, 35,000-man royal army. The immediate military targets were two tiny, desolate outposts: Hassi Beida, little more than a water hole and a few palm trees perched on a stony hill, and Tin-joub, a mud-walled fort seven miles to the east. One day last week a battalion of 1,000 Moroccan infantry armed with bazookas, recoilless cannon and heavy machine guns stormed both outposts, seized them after a four-hour battle in which at least ten Algerians were slain. By sunset the outnumbered Algerians rushed...
...battle called Fallen Timbers near a British fort in northwestern Ohio, General Wayne's disciplined infantry routed a large Indian army. The pursuing Americans saw the gates of the British fort close in the face of the fleeing Indians. Indian trust of their British allies disappeared in smoking rage, and their attacks ceased. The national government had proved itself. Separatist sentiments evaporated. Less than a decade later, Napoleon sold the U.S. a Louisiana Territory he couldn't have held. The flatboat and Fallen Timbers had made it clear who owned America...