Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began to realize that it had been left far behind in the art of guerrilla warfare, and that its then emerging cold war antagonists, Communist Russia and China, were experts. The Army set up the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center in a collection of old buildings at Fort Bragg, N.C. Its first weapons were volumes on guerrilla tactics by such unsurpassed veterans as Red China's Mao Tse-tung and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who used guerrilla warfare against the Turks in World War I. Chief lesson: a band of well-trained, well-supplied guerrillas can harass...
...language, fashion explosives out of chemical fertilizer, cut an enemy's throat (Peking radio calls the operators "Killer Commandos"), live off the land. The all-important aim is to elicit support from the local people by promises, threats, bribes, or by any other means. The Fort Bragg school is broadening its training in counterguerrilla warfare, numbers among its students officers from Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. "Once a guerrilla force knows that it is being stalked by hostile guerrillas, its full attention must be focused on the destruction of this immediate threat," says the Army handbook...
Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth was born too late to be a pioneer, but he more than made up for this slip-up on the part of fate. Starting out as a boardinghouse dishwasher at twelve, he ended up as the publisher of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, a multimillionaire in oil, and, by the time he died in 1955, the man most responsible for turning Fort Worth into the city it is. There was so much to Carter's rambunctious, blustering, big-hearted career that one aspect of it tended to be overshadowed: Carter...
...brief period after college, Feula was recalled into the service, where he became head coach of the Fort Dix football team in New Jersey. Feula who is unmarried, has "played single wing but coached T," so in terms of coaching experience he will find the adjustment to the Crimson T system of head coach John Yovicsin not a completely new experience...
...from Chicago and St. Louis to the West Coast (see map). Through subsidiaries, the Great Northern Pacific would also connect with the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. Texas, via the Colorado & Southern, which is 75% owned by the Burlington and which, in turn, is the sole owner of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway...