Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PHOTOGRAPHER on the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News trained his telephoto lens on Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' 325-ft. yacht, the Christina, hoping to get an intimate picture of the distinguished guest aboard. He got a shot of Sir Winston Churchill, wrapped in a blanket, reading a newsmagazine that has had him as its cover subject eight times...
...Fort Lauderdale...
...Good Friday, Fort Lauderdale was treading water in a wave of 50,000 college students from all over the East, Midwest and South. For 15 seasons, the youngsters have swarmed to the Florida resort to while away their spring vacations in pursuit of sunshine, beer and coeds. This year there was the added stimulus of a sexy film, Where the Boys Are, to bring them running, and the annual invasion was the biggest ever. But, the students discovered, Lauderdale in the spring was dismayingly tame in comparison with the M-G-M script. It was, in fact, just...
...Fort Lauderdale's surf was infested with sharp-stinging Portuguese men-of-war. For two nights running, the Elbo Room and other favorite undergraduate hangouts were closed early on police orders. On top of that, Jade Beach, traditionally the scene of wholesale woo after dark, was declared off limits. Worst of all, the girls were in dismayingly short supply, outnumbered 10 to 1 by the boys. Any small diversion-someone playing a bongo drum, a girl dancing the limbo-attracted hundreds of listless onlookers. Joseph Penar, a bearded student from Illinois State Normal University, shinnied up a coconut palm...
...hurt by the elimination of additional funds for its 6-58 Hustler bomber and by Kennedy's decision to cut back the B70 jet bomber program. If all the cuts go through, and if Convair gets no other contracts, its 18,000-man work force at its Fort Worth plant would have to be deeply slashed...