Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning...
...buildings are wholly renovated department stores, McCurdy's and Forman's. It was Gilbert J. C. Mc-Curdy and Maurice R. Forman who brought Gruen and his project to Rochester. They had heard of Gruen's plan for a similar center in downtown Fort Worth (still on paper). Together. McCurdy and Forman put up the bulk of the cost to build Midtown; they got Manger and other businesses to go along...
...them, Hutch assembles his life's savings (87?), lays in the necessary provisions (eleven peanut-butter sandwiches), and shinnies up the tailgate of a truck bound for Fort Lauderdale, where the Yankees train. When he gets there, Hutch ducks past the doorman of the Yankee Clipper Hotel, falls asleep in Mickey's room, wakes up to see two mountains of muscle frowning down at him. "G-g-gee!" Hutch stutters. "M-Mickey Man'le an' R-Roger Maris...
PRIVATE YANKEE DOODLE (305 pp.)-Joseph Plumb Martin-Little, Brown ($6.50). The Revolutionary War often was fought with tactics that were quaintly old-fashioned or grimly futuristic. During the battle for Fort Mercer, N.J., in 1777, the Americans ran short of ammunition, and soldiers were offered a gill of rum (4 oz.) to retrieve 32-lb. British cannon balls that had fallen short of the mark. U.S. guns then lobbed them back at the British. Near Petersburg, Va., in the closing days of the war, the British captured 700 Negro slaves who had caught smallpox, and deliberately sent them among...
Also chosen were: Mark H. Mullin, of Dunster House and Mount Carroll, Ill.; Joseph N. Onek, of Kirkland House and Forest Hills, N.Y.; John W. Price, of Quincy House and Fort Smith, Ark., Paul S. Ronder, of Adams House and Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Clarke R. Slater, of Quincy House and Cambridge; Jack R. Stauder, of Eliot House and Las Cruces...