Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I tell people I'm from Wayne State University," jokes one professor, "they usually answer, 'Ah, yes. Fort Wayne, Indiana.' " The error is unlikely to persist. Not only has Detroit's fast-growing Wayne (21,260 students) become the nation's 16th-biggest university, but few other state schools are getting better so fast. The secret is that Detroit, auto maker to the nation, is in the midst of a cultural revolution. And no one is hungrier for intellectual horsepower than Wayne's students, the sons and daughters of the men who build...
What the driver did not know was that the man he had just intimidated was not a Negro but a white. He was John Howard Griffin, 39, Dallas-born author (The Devil Rides Outside) on assignment for Sepia magazine, a Negro monthly (circ. 61,975) published in Fort Worth. His skin darkened by pills,* ultraviolet treatment and vegetable dye, his straight brown hair shaved to the poll, he was touring the Deep South to see how it felt to wear the black man's skin. In the current issue of Sepia, in the first of five installments. Griffin began...
...FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANS...
Pete Quesada, FAA administrator, may be too independent to suit airline and union brass. But back in 1937 Captain Pete and his dachshund "Otto" were GI favorites at Fort Leavenworth. Of the 45 Army fliers there, Pete and ten others later became generals. EARL E. WILLIAMS North Canton, Ohio...
...central advertising and public relations department to sharpen the company's independent identity, prefixed the title "General Telephone" to each of General's 30 domestic and five foreign subsidiaries. As the company became better known-it serves such important cities as Long Beach, Calif., Erie, Pa., Fort Wayne, Ind. and Lexington, Ky.-he used its growing reputation to raise capital needed for growth, has raised more than $1 billion...