Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble at Fort Knox. The dollar is still the world's strongest currency-largely because it is backed with the immense hoard of gold that...
...author of Where the Boys Are, a bestselling novel about collegians on vacation, has now taken a giant step into Greek tragedy. He should have stayed with the boys in Fort Lauderdale. Greek grandeur is not duplicated by a setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular...
Connally, a Fort Worth lawyer, was expected all along to do well. After a quarter century of campaigning for Lyndon Johnson, Connally had a good grasp of Texas politics and a long list of friends. Resigning as Secretary of the Navy, he flew home for an energetic 25,000-mile tour around the state this spring. Along the way, he picked up valuable business support, a fat campaign chest and the backing of most Texas newspapers. The result was 422,000 primary votes-or almost a third of the total...
...Vietnamese fortified post, the Viet Cong regulars often build a replica and stage mock attacks on it day after day until every man knows his job by heart. While the regulars practice, the Viet Cong forces from nearby villages are engaged in "preparing the battlefield." Children play near the fort in order to note the arrival and departure of government troops or when and how the guard is changed. Adult villagers hide caches of food and munitions at prearranged spots near the fort so that the regulars can travel light. On the day set for the attack, the Viet Cong...
...goes well, the sound of a bamboo drum will break the jungle silence just before dawn. At the signal the "firepower" detachment of regulars hammers the fort with mortar shells and machine-gun fire. From another direction come the Viet Cong assault troops. Blasting a wray through the barbed wire with explosives tied to the end of a pole, they swarm over the rampart screaming "Tien-len [Forward]'" and pour a withering fire into the startled defenders...