Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORAY Fort Wainwright, Alaska
...draftees assigned to Sergeant. Robert Gardner's platoon in 1951 at Fort Riley, Kans. Gardner was a dedicated soldier: proud, confident, strict and demanding. In 2½ years in the Army, I never met anyone more dedicated to duty and country...
...liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried to explode an A-bomb in Fort Knox in order to seize, naturally, all the U.S. gold; Goldfinger was so deeply committed to the gold standard that he could only make love to women coated in 14-carat gold paint...
...invested more abroad than it has taken in. Despite a healthy trade surplus, the U.S. has pumped so much into postwar foreign aid and military spending overseas (total: more than $100 billion) that its balance of payments has run a net deficit of $20 billion over the past decade. Fort Knox has onlv $4.7 billion left to go before it breaks through the $11.7 billion floor of gold legally required to back U.S. paper currency and the banking system. Although the Fed can suspend the requirement at will, a drop below that minimum could cause a run on the dollar...
...homes in a building tract go, the new ones in Woodland West, a 1,500-unit development in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, had all the features that sell...