Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLLIE H. FRAZIER Fort Belvoir...
...Under Secret Service guard," read a breathless report from the Associated Press. "Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy slipped out of Palm Beach last night and for an hour and a half danced the 'Twist' in a Fort Lauderdale nightclub." Within hours, livid Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger set the wires burning again with the charge that the story "was a cheap effort by a nightclub owner to use the First Family for publicity purposes," and A. P. President Benjamin McKelway was servicing a wordy personal apology to Jackie. Cause of all the hubbub: a zingy Jackie-lookalike, Stephanie Laye Javits...
Culver is a 1,400-acre complex of parapets and playing fields that looms out of monotonous farmland like a Hollywood blend of West Point, Dunsinane and Fort Laramie. The school is hock-high in horses-140 of them-plus an indoor polo field, 150 boats, twelve football fields, 15 tennis courts, a bakery and a barbershop, as well as a 44-room hotel and a 64-room motel for visiting parents and girls down for dances. But most of all, Culver has academic status: 99.2% of its graduates have gone to college (and not predominantly to service academies-only...
...year ago. Will he enter the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow this spring? Says Anievas: "No, I think I should quit while I'm ahead." If he changes his mind, there is still another contest in the offing: the Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Competition, to be held in Fort Worth next fall, which will offer $10,000 as first prize, making it the most lucrative instrumental contest in the world...
...papers and pundits were shocked by the sight of a world peacemaker waging aggressive war. Said the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., News: "To do as the U.N. is doing now in the name of peace is only adding more fuel to the fire which will eventually consume the U.N. and all it is supposed to represent.'' The New York Daily News suggested that the U.S. stop "bankrolling the U.N. Congo campaign" and leave "the Congo chiefs to settle their differences by means of the exhilarating tribal wars so dear to the hearts of most Congolese." The Tampa Tribune found...