Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fort Atkinson...
...native Arkansan (Fort Smith), I knew Wilbur Mills's father as an astute customer [Jan. ii]. If heritage means anything, Congressman Mills will exercise good business judgment. Will cutting taxes stimulate the economy? Any new business demands risk before profit. And isn't all of life, economy included, a matter of trial and error? Wilbur Mills will minimize error. That is, if he takes after...
Time was when college boys went home for the holidays; these days, more and more are taking off with or without their girls and fraternity brothers for a bit of resorting on the cheap. Spring vacation, for instance, is Fort Lauderdale time (or Malibu, or Bermuda), where you can throw your sleeping bag on the beach and live on hamburgers and beer. From Christmas to New Year's, it may well be a ski resort, where you can bed down in a bunkhouse and live on hamburgers and beer...
...them in the time requested. Its Richmond, Va.. field center was asked for 38,000 cots, had them on their way to Florida overnight. Its Philadelphia clothing center dispatched 55,000 camouflage coverings for helmets. Some 850,000 yds. of parachute webbing moved swiftly to Memphis and Fort Bragg. Out of New York, the agency sent 1,000,000 Ibs. of frozen food to deployed naval units, stocked the ships on Cuba patrol with 45 days' worth of supplies. In one week 350,000 ft. of Kodak photo-reconnaissance film sped to Navy and Air Force flyers...
...young often do not regard their parents' conception of the world as even worth rebuffing. Instead, youth culture provides a moratorium in "growing up" to be like one's parents. It includes both the hedonism of beer-and-twisting at Fort Lauderdale and the smugness of those who hit 800 on the college board exam. It respects love, decency, tolerance. It leads to the "privatism" of early marriage and big families as a substitute for big careers. Perhaps it also leads to the Peace Corps-in one sense, the flower of youth culture -but certainly it does...