Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dashed off a note to the general asking if the story were true. Last week Maverick got a reply insisting that, man or boy, Old Soldier Mac-Arthur never faded away from any dromedary. Recalled MacArthur: "About 1885, when my father [General Arthur Mac-Arthur] was in command of Fort Selden, New Mexico, I saw a camel feeding near the post guardhouse. I was then five years old. It would be incorrect to say I was frightened, but I was certainly excited to see such a strange animal...
...Knopf; $3.95), is a stouthearted attempt to win back the desert from the venery-in-Araby school-Paul Bowles and Frederic Prokosch-and return it to the unperfumed condition described by that old camel trammeler, Foreign Legion Novelist Percival Christopher (Beau Geste) Wren. The Legion defends no forts in this tale, but there is an outfit called the Trucial Oman Scouts and there is, as a matter of fact, a defended fort. There is also some rousing prose, not all of it defensible. The book opens with: "Call Aubrey George Grant! The moment had come. My mouth felt suddenly...
...M/SGT) RODNEY N. HOOTS Fort Bragg...
Labor-saving machinery is also playing a big part in holding down costs. Aurora Ill.'s Barber-Greene Co. built a giant $500,000 mobile asphalt plant for Fort Lauderdale's Mobil Asphalt Co., complete with mixing machines, road paver, bunkhouse and machine shop, which rolls under its own power to a job. In a matter of hours it can be set up and with one man operating it, produce 250 tons of asphalt an hour. It will finish in 70 days a 65-mile stretch of highway which was scheduled to take 150 days. Milwaukee...
...Harvard student and a Yale undergraduate were jailed; a Fort Worth, Texas citizen up for the game had $1500 worth of personal belongings taken from his parked car; an MG roadster was stolen from the Eliot House parking lot; a fire broke out in Adams House; a girl attempted suicide in Leverett House; and Dunster House called on several old-guard alumni to push its fervent gung-ho revival...