Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirit of Easter Week," as he put it at his press conference last week, President Kennedy delivered holiday goodies to two of the most publicized PFCs in Army uniform. Announced the Commander in Chief: "I have asked the Army to cancel the trial of PFC Larry D. Chidester of Fort Lewis, Wash., and I've directed the Army to remit the balance of the sentence of PFC Bernis G. Owen at Fort Polk...
...Army reservists who bellyached about being recalled to active duty last year, PFCs Owen and Chidester had two of the tenderest tummies. A pre-law student at the University of Texas, Owen, 23, organized and addressed meetings of unhappy reservists at Fort Polk that drew as many as 700 men. When the meetings were banned by his commanding general, Owen told a newsman that the order was "a hilarious climax to a chain of injustices." For such disrespect to a superior officer, Owen got a court-martial sentence of a $300 fine and six months at hard labor...
...pursuit of Daniel is one of the most influential politicians in Texas, although he has never before run for major public office: John Connally, 45. Fort Worth lawyer and oil man. who plotted strategy for Lyndon Johnson's campaigns from 1937 right through the 1960 convention. Connally quit as Secretary of the Navy to run for Governor. Backed by 26 Texas dailies and a gusher of contributions, Conservative Connally is staging the most intensive campaign of any of the candidates: in two months he has traveled more than 22,000 miles, made 43 major speeches, appeared on two statewide...
...sink, a stove and a refrigerator. Cried a University of Miami coed: "Daytona Beach is the best place in the whole world!" That was precisely the reaction that Daytona Beach had hoped-and spent money-to evoke. In recent springs, U.S. college kids had been heading like lemmings to Fort Lauderdale, about 200 miles farther south. But last year Lauderdale plainly showed that it was fed up with the hijinks, and authorities cracked down hard. No fewer than 800 arrests were made during Easter vacation...
Indeed, about the only sour note of the week came from the News, down south at Fort Lauderdale, which editorialized: "We're afraid the good citizens of Daytona will have to learn the hard...