Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radio City, one of the smaller pirate stations located in a renovated wartime lookout in the Thames Estuary. The marauders surprised the seven sleeping disk jockeys and technicians, who surrendered without a struggle and allowed them to cut the station off the air. Leaving nine men to hold the fort, their leader, Major Oliver Smedley, 54, a bemedaled World War II paratrooper, former Liberal Party vice president and director of twelve companies, sailed back to shore...
Duel at Diablo is ostensibly a battle between murderous Apaches and a company of American folk types who are fighting their way with troops, ammunition and supplies from a place called Fort Creel to a place called Fort Concho. Many a sturdy western has sprung to life from such straightforward plans as these, but Director Ralph Nelson and his scenarists clutter up the spectacular Utah scenery with something other than frontier history. Clearly indebted to more current events, Diablo's wagon train carries two kinds of people: bad guys and freedom riders...
...soon as he could, after a tour of duty as a platoon leader at Fort Campbell, Ky., Carpenter volunteered for duty in Viet Nam. The year was 1963, and there were only 12,000 U.S. troops in that country at the time. An adviser to a South Vietnamese unit, Carpenter saw plenty of action, and came back to the U.S. with the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, a Purple Heart and two wounds inflicted by the Viet Cong...
...time he had first volunteered for Viet Nam, he explained to his wife that it would be a good idea to get his combat duty over with. Then, after only 22 months at a school in Fort Knox, Bill Carpenter volunteered to serve an other term. "He just felt like he should be there," recalls Toni, who lives in Monroe, N.Y., with their three children. "He liked to be with the troops...
...jungles, across parched plains and into badlands withering under spidery trees, the desperate man plays hide-and-seek with his pursuers. Starving, he eats raw snails, shrubs, serpents. Trapped, he sets fires in his wake, or fights. Finally, days later, as he crawls to the safety of a mission fort, the white man waves toward the underbrush. The warriors' resolute leader (South African Actor Ken Gampu) salutes in return, and both men quit the field with honor...