Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind an extensive test at Fort Benning, Ga., that has touched off one of the most bitter interservice squabbles in months. In it. the Army's newly created 11th Airborne Assault Division, and eventually some 15.000 men. will check the feasibility of a plan initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to increase the mobility and striking power of ground troops-mainly by getting them off the ground...
Congress failed even to raise one other important issue, the draft status of Peace Corpsmen. These volunteers perform a service more than equivalent to two years of peeling potatoes at Fort Dix; yet they face the possibility of two years in the Army after their release from the Corps...
...Fort, because it is massive in size-two city blocks, 24 stories high; Kennedy, because old Joe bought it in 1945 for $12.5 million; it is now worth more than $75 million...
...distances, since the FCC permitted ham stations to operate only on 50 watts. This year they have raised it to 1,000 watts (WNBC New York operates on 10,000 watts). Under certain weather conditions, however, remarkable things happen. Larry Mueller once made visual contact with a fellow in Fort Recovery Ohio, 170 miles away...
...three days the 67-ft. shrimp boat Ala drifted eastward through the Florida Straits, nudged along by the Gulf Stream. Its diesel engines had burned out, its radio was powerless, it was taking water. The two Negro shrimpers out of Florida's Fort Myers stood knee-deep in water, bailing for their lives. Near dusk, a MIG jet out of Cuba swooped toward the boat...