Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready Marines, many of them veterans of Korean fighting and of crisis moves in Quemoy and Lebanon. The crack Seventh Army, massed 150,000 strong in Europe, keeps a cool watch on Berlin and provides the shield for NATO; the Korea-trained 82nd Airborne Division is at Fort Bragg, N.C., ready for the next call...
...Fort Pierce, Fla., an all-male jury found former West Palm Beach Judge Joseph A. Peel Jr., 37, guilty of masterminding the murder of Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth who, with his wife, was bludgeoned and drowned in the Atlantic in 1955 (TIME, Nov. 14). Prosecutor Phillip O'Connell, an old friend of the murdered man, charged that the debonair Peel had feared that the protection he was selling to moonshiners and numbers men was about to be exposed by the respected Chillingworth, and so hired thugs to kill him. Facing life imprisonment after the jury recommended mercy, Peel defiantly...
...Wright, 38, Fort Worth Congressman, is a middle-of-the-roader who at this stage has the private backing of both Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn...
Today Carter's art collection-almost entirely the Western paintings and sculpture of Missouri-born Charles M. Russell and New York-born Frederic Remington-is housed in the newest of U.S. museums, a graceful structure on a rise overlooking Fort Worth. In designing its facade, Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson (TIME, Sept. 5) to a large degree abandoned the austere international style that has dominated modern architecture, instead dipped far into the past for inspiration. The five archways and the tapered columns on the front portico go back to the Greek stoas and the Renaissance loggias that looked down upon...
...fine old Great Falls, Mont., saloon called The Mint. The people of Montana belatedly tried to raise the money to outbid Carter and keep the artist's work in the state he adopted, but Carter won. He hung his acquisitions in his club, at the newspaper, in the Fort Worth library, the airport terminal. His will stipulated that they should eventually have their own museum...