Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resident of Fort Washington, Pa., Smith is presently Chairman of the Board of the Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia. After receiving his LL.B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925, he practiced law in Philadelphia before serving in the Navy during World War II. He is a trustee of the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and a member of the Harvard Overseers' Committee on University Resources...
...Army. The pine-forested acres of North Carolina's Fort Bragg provide a rugged training ground and home for the 5,600 men of the Army's Special Forces. These men, who wear distinctive green berets, fashion crude villages of thatched huts, canvas and pine logs in the woods, act out roles as insurgents or villagers battling for control. Defenders whittle branches into spikes, set them upright under leaves to lame invaders. To show the "natives" how to treat wounds, a friendly medic snaps the neck of a rabbit, slits its belly open for a blood-and-guts...
...Palmer and Tony Lema, not to mention 15 strokes better than par. The victory was worth $13,000 in silver dollars, which swelled his 1963 winnings to $52,715 (v. $32,496 for Lema, $31,375 for Palmer). Then it was off to the Colonial National Invitation at Fort Worth, where the winner's purse is $12,000. Naturally, Texas oddsmakers made him a 4 to 1 favorite...
...undeterred as usual. McNamara is going ahead with the Fort Benning test. But the argument is just beginning. For after the results of .the experiment are in, Air Force experts will sit in on the evaluation panel-and undoubtedly will try to show that the Air Force could have done the same job better. The Army, meanwhile, seems unworried. It recently announced that 18-year-olds can enlist in the Army and be assigned directly to flight training...
...dawn rose over Paris early one morning last week, a volley of rifle shots echoed through dank, grim Ivry Fort. Dead before the firing squad sank ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, convicted ringleader of last summer's abortive attempt to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart as he was motoring to his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises.* Though De Gaulle spared two other plotters, he presumably ordered the execution of Bastien-Thiry to discourage other terrorists from further assassination efforts on behalf of the dread Secret Army Organization...