Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually reserved for saints, angels or devils. Seldom do living people make the grade. However, twice I have been commissioned to depict in stained glass Presbyterian Eugene Blake as president of the National Council of Churches. The Redford Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit and the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth both have him, without halo, wings or forked tail...
Across the U.S. this summer, thousands of National Guardsmen will trudge reluctantly off for two weeks of required duty in the dust of Massachusetts' Fort Devens, the red clay of Georgia's Fort Benning, and the isolation of dozens of other dreary installations. But for the past six years, the 800 members of Louisiana's 159th Fighter Group have barely been able to wait for their training sessions to begin at Gulfport, a resort town on the silvery sands of the Gulf Coast...
Trujillo Jr., 32, one of Trujillo's four acknowledged offspring. A polo-loving playboy, his main claim to fame until now was flunking out of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth while AWOL in pursuit (despite a wife and six children) of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (to whom he gave a $5,500 Mercedes-Benz, a $17,000 chinchilla coat). Commissioned by Daddy as an army colonel at the age of three and promoted to brigadier general at nine, Ramfis has little in his record to suggest the tenacity and talent needed...
...impeccable Charleston gentleman with an ante-bellum mind, Editor Waring fires on Fort Sumter every morning. He applauds Citizens Councils, mourns the fact that "even some Southerners-people who should know better-are saying that integration of the races is inevitable." As for the rest of the world ("the whiter they are the better the country"), his newspaper sees it in black and white. One recent editorial was titled "Who Cares What Asia Thinks?" Another, on South Africa, "that outpost of Western civilization," sympathized with white cops "whose lives were endangered by hordes of savages in modern dress." When Kenya...
...same couple were leaving Palmetto Presbyterian two Sundays later, they were surprised and pleased when Pastor Wyrick paused as they filed past him, greeted them by name and added: "I'm glad you could come over again from Fort Lauderdale...