Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Racing toward the fort, protected by barbed wire and an embankment bristling with bamboo spikes, the Communists burned the surrounding huts...
...Fort Sill, Okla...
...Operating on the theory that one good deed deserves another, Yankee Slugger (61 home runs) Roger Maris showed up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to talk contract with General Manager Roy Hamey. His bags were already packed, should Hamey prove stubborn, but Maris was persuaded to stay. The clincher: a $32,000 raise (to $70,000)-or about $525 for each of his 1961 homers...
Among the seventy-three original candidates, however, were the three leading liberals in Texas: Henry B. Gonzalez and Maury Maverick, both of San Antonio, and Jim Wright of Fort Worth. Had two of the three declined to run, the other would have easily defeated both Blakeley and Tower. And the lesson was obvious. Since the Senate fiasco, the liberal foces have reunited; they plan closer co-operation and organization, and expect centralization to be the order for future state-wide contests. Exactly how effective this new attitude will be still remains to be tested, but certainly the effort is being...
...sickness and in health, Marilyn Monroe, 35, has always found ex-Second Husband Joe DiMaggio, 47, tall, dark and handy. Last week, visiting him for the second straight year at the winter encampment of the New York Yankees, she discreetly stayed out of view in the DiMag menage at Fort Lauderdale's Yankee Clipper Hotel for two days before Batting Tutor Joe cut practice to put her on a plane in Miami, wound up all the way from centerfield for a goodbye buss. Fetching up next in Mexico City, Marilyn scoffed at rumors that she might remarry DiMaggio...