Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLASH WE PROTEST YOUR GRAPHIC BUT UNDERDEVELOPED EXPOSURE OF OUR DON WRIGHT. HE HAS BEEN, HE IS, AND WE HOPE HE ALWAYS WILL BE A STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE MIAMI "NEWS" AND NOT THE FORT LAUDERDALE "NEWS...
...twelve years, at the beginning of each new session of Congress, Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Carroll Kearns has methodically offered a resolution demanding that a congressional delegation be dispatched to recount the gold buried at Fort Knox. The resolution was what Congressmen call "constituent bait," designed solely to impress Daughters of the American Revolution, who are powerful in Kearns's home district. Year after year the Kearns resolution and dozens of similar motions have been ignored by the House Rules Committee and allowed to die decently-as the authors expected. But last week, to the surprise of Carroll...
...Fort Knox resolution will not get a Rules Committee passport to the House floor; it is certain to be shelved by the votes of the new liberal majority, headed by Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling, which is anxious to get on with the business of approving President Kennedy's legislative program. But the Kearns proposal was followed quickly by Rules Committee consideration of a flood of other absurd resolutions, such as one that would have authorized a House investigation of "the social and economic problems engendered by parenthood outside of wedlock...
When it sought $6,615 from a House appropriations subcommittee to install a resident historian at Fort Washington, the National Park Service reckoned with out a resident historian on the committee -Ohio Democrat Michael Kirwan, who never got past second grade, but knows all about the War of 1812 and how Fort Washington, twelve miles south of the capital, surrendered ignominiously to the British. "Do you have to remind people that that is the place we ran from without firing a shot?", the budget-cutting Congressman asked acidly. Just like Fort Washington's garrison, the Park Service surrendered...
...unwind from his work, Dykstra likes to raise flowers (roses, daffodils, tulips) in the garden of his Georgian colonial home in suburban Bloomfield Vil lage, where he lives with his wife Marion. Another hobby: quick trips to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he has a home and a 33-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser for deep-sea fishing...