Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This meeting, and a similar one the next night in nearby San Benito, where 153 professed Democrats bolted their party, were the latest instances of a new sort of Texas political charivari: the "resignation rally." Out of such a rally in Fort Worth came some 600 signed resignation cards; at Harlingen about 150 switched; at Littlefield, 126. Rallies are now being held almost weekly, to the delight of G.O.P. leaders fired up by last May's election of Republican John Tower to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...Airborne!" The next day the President took advantage of a long-scheduled speaking trip to the University of North Carolina (see EDUCATION) to see an Army division at close hand. The division was the lean, tough, combat-ready 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. For Kennedy, the excursion into the field was his first as Commander in Chief, and he enjoyed it thoroughly. Kennedy rode slowly past the massed units of the 10,268-man division. When the inspection was done, Kennedy praised the 82nd for doing "in peacetime what other men do in war, and that is, live hazardously...
Before leaving Fort Bragg, President Kennedy visited 300 men of the 82nd who had not participated in the performance; they had been on combat alert. One paratrooper startled the President by shouting in his face: "Airborne, all the way!" Replied the President of the U.S., with every reason to mean what he said: "That's the spirit...
...repeat that in less than twelve months we shall be in the midst of a bloody war." Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, blind in one eye and haggard with headaches, was a moderate who could say to his wife, even after the Confederacy under his presidency had fired on Fort Sumter: "Separation is not yet, of necessity, final. There has been no blood spilled more precious than that of a mule...
...Southwest Conference, every game is a grudge match. Private Rice carries a finely honed ax for public Texas. Fort Worth's Texas Christian nurses a traditional, geographic hatred of Dallas' Southern Methodist, and the two state schools-Texas and Texas A. & M. -have been slugging it out since 1894. But some of the wildest moments in conference history have been produced by the rivalry between Baptist Baylor and Methodist S.M.U. Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles was an assistant at Baylor in 1947, assigned to the spotting phone in the press box during the S.M.U. game. A few minutes before...