Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the U.S. bombings of a village along the vaguely defined Cambodian-South Vietnamese border fort night ago. The U.S. claimed the village was guerrilla-infested and in South Viet Nam. Sihanouk claimed it was peace-loving and in Cambodia, huffily suggested that the U.S. did not recognize that his country had any frontiers at all. With that, Sihanouk last week abruptly passed word that Harriman was no longer welcome. "I am 'Monsieur' Sihanouk, ethnically Cambodian, and do not exist according to the American conception," Snookie sniffed. "Therefore, it is not possible to hold talks with...
...squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions are good enough to hang in both the Chicago Art Institute, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Wahleah was properly tearful at the honor, and absolutely overwhelmed at being allowed to pose in her tribe's sacred feathered headdress...
Destination of the Johnson Collection, currently at the Fort Worth Art Center, is Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts. What the Smithsonian will get is a panoramic survey of U.S. painting, restricted in time but encompassing the then current art scene. In retrospect, the moment it caught was one of transition between abstract expressionism and the pop-op movement, but the collection has enough prime works by established artists to prove that for American art, almost any year in recent decades has been a vintage year...
...only American general wounded in Viet Nam when enemy ground fire riddled a chopper he was riding. An inveterate skydiver, he returned to the U.S. only to suffer fractures of the back, pelvis and both heels when his parachute failed to open properly during a free-fall jump at Fort Bragg...
...Grimes, 45, operator of a one-man West Coast air ferry service, was delivering a plane that a California winery had recently sold to the government of Thailand. Stilwell planned to go along as far as Hawaii, then return to the mainland. Taking a three-day pass from Fort Bragg, he went to San Francisco, first to deliver a couple of speeches and then to see off his son, Joe III, 27, an Army captain who was leaving for duty in Viet...