Word: forte
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Strangled Syntax. The first stop in the President's political week was Fort Smith, Ark., where he tarried just eight minutes between plane and helicopter to endorse Senator William Fulbright, already campaigning hard (TIME, Nov. 3) for re-election next year. But the blessings were brief and the syntax was strangled: "I served in the Senate of the U.S. for eight years with Senator McClellan as a member of the Rackets Committee-where he spoke for what is best in the U.S.; and with Senator Fulbright on the Foreign Relations Committee, who has worked for a strong...
...Army, already up to its boot-tops in professional athletic talents, last week snared two more famous names: New York Yankee Shortstop Tony Kubek, 25, married only two weeks, who joined Wisconsin's Red Arrow Division at Fort Lewis, Wash., and Green Bay Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, 25, top scorer in the National Football League, who reports next week to Fort Riley, Kans., at the end of a two-week deferment granted on medical grounds. Said Hornung, who originally was disqualified because of a pinched nerve in his neck, then pronounced fit after a second exam...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). First of two programs on guerrilla warfare, as taught by the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C., and on Okinawa...
...Small Part." Crisscrossing Arkansas in a cream-colored Ford station wagon, Fulbright plans to make at least 40 speeches by mid-December, before audiences ranging from the Altrusa Club of Little Rock to the United Church Women of Fort Smith. The reason for his urgency: Fulbright faces his most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record...
Democrats were openly scornful. Said Young Democratic Club Leader Carlos Moore after the Fort Worth meeting: "These people are just a bunch of far right-wingers who have been supporting the Republican ticket for 20 to 30 years. They can't win their viewpoint within the Democratic Party." But the criticism missed the point. Although many Texans have indeed been voting Republican for years, only recently has actual G.O.P. membership become respectable...