Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Named by the President to succeed Connally as Navy Secretary was another Texan: Fred Korth, 52, a lawyer who is also president of Fort Worth's Continental National Bank. A lieutenant colonel in the Air Transport Command during World War II, Korth, too, is a longtime Johnson follower. He knows his way around the Pentagon: he was the Army's deputy counselor in 1951, later became an Assistant Secretary of the Army. In Fort Worth, his name is almost as well known as that of his family's longtime, locally beloved housekeeper and cook, Emma Victoria Elizabeth...
Mononucleosis has cut a sizeable portion of the Crimson varsity from the match, but as is usual with Coach Jack Barnaby's teams, there are plenty of competent reserves to hold the fort...
Harvey, it turned out, had been married six times, and his surviving ex-wives agreed that he was a vain, difficult husband, and a man whose love quickly cooled. Reported Wife No. 1, now remarried to a Fort Myers, Fla., businessman: "I don't think I satisfied him. I don't think any woman could. He was very egotistical. He worried about himself. He weight-lifted a lot." Said No. 3, now married to a Dallas doctor: "I don't know which wife I was. It wasn't like being married anyhow. He was constantly interested...
...excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family. Would he ever return to the Dominican Republic? Generalissimo Héctor Trujillo was asked. He answered nonchalantly, sure: "After all, it's our country...
...pilot discovered that the nose wheel was not locked down into place. He pulled up the laboring Constellation, began to circle for another approach-and smashed into a swampy wood outside Richmond, Va. The crash and fire last week killed 74 Army recruits who were being flown to Fort Jackson, S.C., and touched off bitter criticism of the Army's system of transporting troops...